Definition of "manstealer" []

• A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder. (noun)

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• "While Mr. Brown would most gladly have accepted manumission papers, relieving him from all future claim of the slaveholder, and thereby making his freedom more secure, he yet felt that he could not conscientiously purchase his liberty, because, by so doing, he would be putting money into the pockets of the manstealer which did not justly belong to him."
• "And yet this and more must be done to get rid of the hated negro, who has been born in that State, or has fled to it for protection from the manstealer."
• "Why, then, does he fly from St. Paul's opinion of the slaveholder to what he has said of the manstealer and the murderer?"