Meaning & use
Enslaver
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A person or group that forces another person into slavery or a condition of servitude.
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Historians have increasingly used "enslaver" instead of "slave owner" to emphasize the violence of the act.
The rebellion targeted the plantation's enslavers directly.
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The term has gained wider use in historical writing as a way to foreground the agency and moral responsibility of those who held enslaved people.
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