What is "slave owner"

Usage examples of "slave owner".

John, I feel sure, although he hasn't said as much, worries also about how he would reconcile himself to becoming a slave owner, or that he could ever be strict enough to get productive work from them.

You know I'm not one to mention it often, but some of the sin of being a slave owner dims for a man if he thinks his people respect him.

It was not her fault -- he was too ravaged by guilt at being a slave owner to enjoy anything.

Harrison would also succeed in spreading slavery beyond its present locale, permitting slave owners to bring slaves to property in the free states and continue to own them and force them to serve on such property-- as long as the slave owner continued to own any amount of land in a slave state and cast his vote there.