slaver
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He was invited to join a group of slaver descendants confronting the past and through them, forged relationships in the country where Africans were once owned by his ancestor.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023
Ellen, whose father was a slaver, was white enough to pass, but as a woman she could not easily travel unaccompanied in 1848.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
The Portuguese monarchy also hired explorers such as Alvise Cadamosto, a Venetian slaver sent to scout the region of Senegambia.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The setting sun seems to set the ocean ablaze, while to its left, the tossing slaver appears to be swallowed up by a knifed spray of white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The slaver pulls out a sack of coins.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Thus the British, who had been such enthusiastic slavers, went on to force Muslim rulers to end their own version of the practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
They could be lamentations or celebrations; at the same time, they could serve as a means of stealthy communication, spreading news outside the ken of white slavers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
My own version of that would be: “Since the legacy of slavers cannot be borne, their names are crossed out. Since the legacy of slavers cannot be covered up, their names remain legible.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
The task force’s findings in the report detail how American slavers trafficked African Americans to California, particularly in the gold rush era that began in 1848.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
And lam the calamity that will change these slavers back into people, Dany had sworn to herself.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
New York’s talent-hungry musical theater slavered for a follow-up.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
When the film played at Cannes in spring 2001, it was slavered over by critics; on release that autumn, it hit big.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017
Then he did a bit in which he slavered over Sabra hummus and Rold Gold pretzels.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015
They slavered over the delicious incongruity of this young thruster mixing it up with gimlet-eyed corporate lawyers, and winning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
His white fangs in his red jaws had slavered with craving as he watched the plump beavers at their work, far out on the brightly moonlit dam.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
And those internal and external opponents of Boris Johnson slavering at the prospect of Whatsapp messages and potentially embarrassing photographs from inside Downing Street being made public are likely to remain unsated.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022
Still, it was surprising to hear such a slavering tribute from a scientist in the midst of a global health crisis.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2020
With Star Wars: The Last Jedi, writer-director Rian Johnson made a point of answering questions set up by The Force Awakens, and giving fans some answers they were slavering for.
From The Verge ● Dec. 18, 2017
Nor is it really about slavering over money, at least in its early sections.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
He’ll hear piano music draining down through the upper stories and cock his head, and then he’ll rove the sixth floor like a slavering demon.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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