slaver

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 plaque was installed in the church after the 18th Century slaver died in Dorchester in 1744, aged 46, during a visit to England - he was Scottish by birth.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022

This casting decision makes a clear point: Kind or not, a slaver is still a slaver.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2022

“He is a smuggler and a slaver, half pirate and half pander, but it may be that he is your best hope,” the innkeep had told them.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

This period witnessed the emergence of expansionist new states in West Africa, such as Dahomey and Segou, whose wars of conquest generated captives for European slavers.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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 slavers of Yunkai had trained them in the way of the seven sighs, but that was not why Victarion wanted them.

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

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

Certainly not the critics, who slavered over its Royal Court premiere in 2007 and West End transfer, where the cast included the then-future Doctor Who, Matt Smith.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2010

He has slavered you with pretty speeches and soft words, as the cobra slavers his victim, and he will devour you, as the cobra does.

From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

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

Miller took one of the better-known characters from Stephen King's ginormous novel and transformed him into a slavering, blithering idiot, adding one more thing to despise atop a mountain of mediocrity.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2021

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

I pull myself in tight under the rock ledge, but can’t stop my jowls from slavering at the thought of food.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz