slaver
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He was invited to join a group of slaver descendants confronting the past and through them, forged relationships in the country where Africans were once owned by his ancestor.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
This casting decision makes a clear point: Kind or not, a slaver is still a slaver.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2022
“Is he looking for the whole truth here? The fact that he was a slaver and ran slaves up to the colonies? That’s what the historical documents say,” Hunt said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
The Tribesman's mouth drops open, and the slaver regards me as if I'm a rat who has begun juggling.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
This period witnessed the emergence of expansionist new states in West Africa, such as Dahomey and Segou, whose wars of conquest generated captives for European slavers.
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
Even he could not always make sense of the mongrel Ghiscari tongue the slavers spoke, especially when they were speaking fast.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
He has slavered you with pretty speeches and soft words, as the cobra slavers his victim, and he will devour you, as the cobra does.
From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
And those internal and external opponents of Boris Johnson slavering at the prospect of Whatsapp messages and potentially embarrassing photographs from inside Downing Street being made public are likely to remain unsated.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022
Still, it was surprising to hear such a slavering tribute from a scientist in the midst of a global health crisis.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2020
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
His reputation, however, resides in earthly paradise, with two blockbuster exhibitions this year, drawing tens of thousands to admire his slavering, fluttering, waddling abominations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
He’ll hear piano music draining down through the upper stories and cock his head, and then he’ll rove the sixth floor like a slavering demon.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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