slave owner
slave owner — 名詞
1. a person who owns other people as property, forcing them to work without pay and
奴隸主
擁有奴隸的人
a person who owns other people as property, forcing them to work without pay and controlling their lives under a system of slavery
Benjamin's great-grandfather was a slave owner in Virginia before the Civil War.
Benjamin 的曾祖父在南北戰爭前是維吉尼亞州的奴隸主。
was a slave owner in [place] before [historical event]
Historians analysed how slave owners used violence to control the people they claimed as property.
歷史學家分析了奴隸主如何利用暴力來控制他們聲稱擁有的人。
slave owners used [noun] to control [noun]
Plantation records show a wealthy slave owner named Gabriel lived here in the 1790s.
莊園紀錄顯示，一位名叫 Gabriel 的富有奴隸主在 1790 年代曾在這裡居住。
Arjun read about a slave owner who freed those he had enslaved in his will.
Arjun 讀到一位奴隸主在遺囑中解放了被他奴役的人。
- slaveholder
the exact synonym; 'slaveholder' is slightly more formal and more common in academic writing
- enslaver
a newer term that emphasises the active role of taking people into bondage; preferred in some modern historical scholarship
用法筆記
This term is used in historical contexts to describe individuals in societies that legally permitted the ownership of human beings. In modern discussions of similar coercive labour practices, 'human trafficker' is more appropriate.