slaver
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Ellen, whose father was a slaver, was white enough to pass, but as a woman she could not easily travel unaccompanied in 1848.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
The Portuguese monarchy also hired explorers such as Alvise Cadamosto, a Venetian slaver sent to scout the region of Senegambia.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The plaque was installed in the church after the 18th Century slaver died in Dorchester in 1744, aged 46, during a visit to England - he was Scottish by birth.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022
The setting sun seems to set the ocean ablaze, while to its left, the tossing slaver appears to be swallowed up by a knifed spray of white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
She turns her back on the startled slaver, who quickly retreats, and settles her gaze on me.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Thus the British, who had been such enthusiastic slavers, went on to force Muslim rulers to end their own version of the practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
By that time, white slavers had grown so accustomed to ignoring the Emancipation Proclamation, issued more than two years earlier, that even after Juneteenth, the institution of enslavement lingered on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
The kings of Whydah had a very close relationship with the European slavers who established trading centers along the Gulf of Guinea.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
They could be lamentations or celebrations; at the same time, they could serve as a means of stealthy communication, spreading news outside the ken of white slavers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
But publicly, they reviled it and were obligated to prosecute all slavers.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
New York’s talent-hungry musical theater slavered for a follow-up.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
Then he did a bit in which he slavered over Sabra hummus and Rold Gold pretzels.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015
They slavered over the delicious incongruity of this young thruster mixing it up with gimlet-eyed corporate lawyers, and winning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
Certainly not the critics, who slavered over its Royal Court premiere in 2007 and West End transfer, where the cast included the then-future Doctor Who, Matt Smith.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2010
Tartar looked, slavered, and sighed, as his manner was, but yet disregarded the invitation, and coolly settled himself on his haunches at Louis Moore's side.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
But some of the verdicts weren't just from long-standing critics or those with a dog slavering to get in to the fight.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Miller took one of the better-known characters from Stephen King's ginormous novel and transformed him into a slavering, blithering idiot, adding one more thing to despise atop a mountain of mediocrity.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2021
With Star Wars: The Last Jedi, writer-director Rian Johnson made a point of answering questions set up by The Force Awakens, and giving fans some answers they were slavering for.
From The Verge ● Dec. 18, 2017
Anyway, back to Plummer, whose slavering autobiography reads like the bell you’d put around a cat’s neck to warn birds: he was a high-risk replacement for Spacey.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2017
I pull myself in tight under the rock ledge, but can’t stop my jowls from slavering at the thought of food.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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