Meanings
nounmen-stealer (plural men-stealers)
plural men-stealers · alternative menstealer
- A slave-dealer; someone who seizes other persons to hold those persons as slaves or sell them into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
In abolishing slavery, you abolish that calling of the men-stealer, and in abolishing that calling you abolish slavery.
1846, A Debate on Slavery, held in the City of Cincinnati on the first, second, third, and sixth days of October, 1845, page 429
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