Example Sentences

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Enslaver as a substitute for slave owner doesn’t quite work, either.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2022

Enslaver Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, is honored in the Capitol with a statue sent by Mississippi.

From Washington Post

Enslaver and physician Ephraim McDowell, honored in the Capitol by the state of Kentucky, performed experimental abdominal surgeries on enslaved Black women.

From Washington Post

Come, Miss Ibbotson, begin; your sister will follow, and I—” But it so happened that Miss Ibbotson had never heard ‘Fair Enslaver.’

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet