Wiktionary
alt. Anyone that has control or ownership over another human being (e.g. owner of a slave). n. Anyone that has control or ownership over another human being (e.g. owner of a slave).
Usage examples of "slaveowner".
The meeting called the war a plot by slaveowners and asked for the withdrawal of American troops from disputed territory.
These two extreme parties were the slaveowners of the South and the abolitionists of the North and West.
An intermediate doctrine has been held by men who were nearer in their sympathies to the slaveowners than to the abolitionists, but who were not disposed to justify slavery as a thing apart.
It signified servile insurrection, absolute ruin to all Southern slaveowners, and the absolute enmity of every slave State.
It has been the close vicinity of slaveowners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.
The Act made it easy for slaveowners to recapture ex-slaves or simply to pick up blacks they claimed had run away.
Furrowspring County is in virtual rebellion against the laws of the United States, refusing to accept the Supreme Court ruling that slaveowners can recover their escaped property.