“The Chaplain of Cape Coast castle had been borne over to Elmina in a hammock the previous day, accompanied by his personal slave.”

“Her solicitor claimed that Smith's wife was his slave.”

“The abolitionists sent 5,000 petitions to Parliament with 1.5 million signatures calling for an end to slavery in the British colonies the following year.”

“The quotas were impossible to make, the work was sheer slavery, and conditions were deplorable.”

“The result is that the addict comes to believe in his or her own total and irreversible slavery to drugs.”

“Throw off the chains of the slavemaster, the devil, and return to the fold.”

“A VIOLENT boyfriend who demanded his partner call him Dominus, after the slavemaster in Spartacus, was jailed for five years.”

“The lower courts agreed but the Missouri Supreme Court sided with the slaveowner, prompting Scott to initiate a new lawsuit in federal court.”

“Replacing Jackson, a slaveowner, with the abolitionist Tubman would have a satisfying symmetry.”

“She had children with an Irish-American slaveowner named Shields whose family came from the rural area of Ballysheil in Co Offaly.”

“He was the foremost agent of economic modernity against the slavocracy of the South.”

“Not to do so would be the equivalent of working to free the slaves without working to dismantle the slavocracy.”

“It had long been an axiom with the slavocracy that the institution would perish unless it had the opportunity to expand.”

“Accounts written by other mariners shipwrecked along the same coast chronicled brutal enslavement at the hands of ruthless desert nomads.”

“His governorship of Hispaniola was the low point, an outburst of gold fever accompanied by the enslavement and slaughter of the native people.”

“During enslavement, Gullahs and Geechees were not allowed to write or read.”

“Tracy, the imperious slavocrat, clings desperately to slavery, the economic foundation of his wealth and power.”

“Overall we can think of the slaveholder as more able and more eager to get more slaves.”

“They nominated James G. Birney, a Kentuckian and former slaveholder, for president.”

“Did fire from heaven descend, and consume the slaveholder at their invocation?”

“Literature as enslaver, books as concealers of truth: Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses.”

“When Death is no longer terrible to the Enslaved, then let the enslaver look to it.”

“At the extreme, the car is not an instrument of liberation, but an enslaver.”

“The same misguided values that have made slaveholders, Indian-killers, and militarists the heroes of our history books still operate today.”

“He would stand against the slaveholders unless they happened to be powerful, wealthy Northerners like Jefferson and Washington.”

“They accept Washington and Jefferson as slaveholders rather than as lawgivers of genius.”

“In November 1999, without shoes or a coat, she ran away from her enslavers.”

“It lingered on, unsustained by the country and despised by its enslavers.”

“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.”