Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is influential by reason of the ownership of many slaves.
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Examples
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Most of this land was poor, and beneath the notice of the slave-baron, before the war.
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Most of this land was poor, and beneath the notice of the slave-baron, before the war.
VII. Of the Black Belt. William Edward Burghardt 1903
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The Jew is the heir of the slave-baron in Dougherty; and as we ride westward, by wide stretching cornfields and stubby orchards of peach and pear, we see on all sides within the circle of dark forest a Land of Canaan.
VII. Of the Black Belt. William Edward Burghardt 1903
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Most of this land was poor, and beneath the notice of the slave-baron, before the war.
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