Meanings of possess slaves in English

Those natives who possess slaves pay their tributes for them if the slaves are saguiguilirs.

Do you know, Doctor, why we on Sainte Croix possess slaves while Sainte Anne does not?

No man can either sell or possess slaves without its being known: they cannot be smuggled like lace or brandy.

It is nothing uncommon for those belonging to the Europeans to possess slaves of their own, and to acquire considerable substance.

He has a standing army of ten million men, and his people possess slaves-whiteslaves-tothe number of ten or fifteen million.

They may enjoy all the forms of property, though generally their possessions are of smaller extent and value, and they seldom possess slaves.

Abbots, bishops, and popes possessed slaves and serfs.

The nobles alone possessed slaves, and they treated them with a degree of kindness which frequently secured for the masters their affectionate attachment.