What's the difference between manstealer and slaveholder?
Manstealer
Definition:
(n.) A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.
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Slaveholder
Definition:
(n.) One who holds slaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) A woman identified by a protest organizer as Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old youth organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina, climbed the flagpole before 6am and took down the controversial emblem of the antebellum, slaveholding south, with the assistance of another activist.
(2) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(3) The family names I carry (Forde on my father's side and Griffiths on my mother's) derive not from any African ancestors, but were almost certainly imposed by a now-anonymous slaveholder.
(4) It would be nice if we spent at least as much time talking about how the electoral college, a bizarre institution originally designed to protect the power of slaveholders , perverts democracy.
(5) But for many people in South Carolina – and across these United States – the most important word in its description is “slaveholding”.
(6) When society is made up of slaves and slaveholders and the parasites of the latter, as it is nowadays, honesty is impossible for the average man, and difficult for even the heroic to practice.
(7) Thistlewood's diary is horrific, but demonstrates that men like Edwin Epps did exist and were not necessarily exceptional in slaveholding societies of that period.
(8) The peaceable Thoreau extols this grim killer for a practical reason: Brown has taken action, violent action, against the sanctioned violence of the slavery-protecting state: It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave.
(9) It featured a blue St Andrew’s Cross on a red field, with a white star for each of the slaveholding states.
(10) But Carson distinguished himself, likening women who seek abortions to slaveholders.
(11) It’s hard to see how we’ve come very far from the mentalities of the American Civil War, considering that the Emanuel AME Church is on Calhoun Street (named after the former US vice-president who, with his dying breath , advocated for the rights of slaveholders and states rights) and that the Confederate flag (the most potent symbol of the South’s desire to maintain slavery) still flies at South Carolina’s state capital every day.
(12) Film fans may recall with a nauseated feeling the opening titles of a very different movie about the slaveholding south, 1939's Gone With the Wind: "Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow."
(13) The world may justly recoil in surprise, disdain, derision and alarm at the election of President Obama’s successor – a uniquely unqualified white-nationalist demagogue elected by a minority of American voters, through an archaic “electoral college” system put into place to placate slaveholders, in a gesture some have interpreted as white repudiation of the first black president –but the fact remains that, in 2008, the American people were wise enough, and fortunate enough, to have put an individual of the quality of Obama into office.
(14) But what struck me most was McQueen's brave depiction of the relationship between black women and white slaveholding women in America.
(15) For 80 years the family crest of the brutal slaveholder Isaac Royall Jr served as the official seal of the prestigious Harvard Law School.