1.   A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.

2.   But the soldiers were used by the slave owners to protect their wealth.

3.   Earlier, slave owners had at least minimal responsibility for slaves as property.

4.   This was the first slave she had ever purchased, making her a firsthand slave owner.

5.   Bonner said she particularly questioned why former slaves would name their children after a slave owner.

6.   African-Americans have long objected to the way Mitchell depicted slaves and slave owners in the book.

7.   But Schundler, who in recent weeks has likened supporters of abortion rights to murderers, Nazis and slave owners, did not stop there.

8.   Christian slave owners insisted that holy writ blessed their heinous practice.

9.   During the Civil War, slave owners marched slaves along cattle drive routes and sent black men to gather stray steers, he said.

10.   During his speech, Farrakhan compared the mainstream media to a slave owner, saying both plotted to divide blacks and keep them weak.