men-stealer

See also: menstealer

English

Alternative forms

• menstealer

Noun

men-stealer (plural men-stealers)

1. A slave-dealer; someone who seizes other persons to hold those persons as slave or sell them into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
   • 1846, A Debate on Slavery, held in the City of Cincinnati on the first, second, third, and sixth days of October, 1845, page 429:

     In abolishing slavery, you abolish that calling of the men-stealer, and in abolishing that calling you abolish slavery.

Related terms

• man-stealer, manstealer