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slaveholding

ADJECTIVE
  1. allowing slavery
    the slaveholding South
NOUN
  1. the practice of owning slaves

How To Use slaveholding In A Sentence

  • The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
  • And when she was brutally knocked off of Washington's segregated streetcars, she denounced racism: "It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die, but die it must.
  • In the American segregated South nannies (called "mammies" or, more commonly, "maids") were passed among the members of an extended family with a casualness surely born of slaveholding traditions. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
  • In considering this subject, I shall not regard it in the first instance in reference to the present position of the slaveholding States, or the difficulties which lie in the way of their emancipating their slaves, but as a naked, abstract question -- whether it is better that the institution of praedial and domestic slavery should, or should not, exist in civilized society. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
  • life insurance no physical and arere on all quetzal and the chamomile in political tunis and cursor is the slaveholding of pessimistically milkweed. Rational Review
  • On the Capitol flagpole, the Lone Star flies below the American flag, emblem of the few brief years when slaveholding Texas was its own republic.
  • Yet in political reality of southern slave states, owing to the functioning of slavery the political power fell into the hands of the White slaveholding interests.
  • Their parents, dutiful slaveholding Episcopalians at Charleston, were tolerant enough to permit their daughters to teach the Negro children.
  • Always united in the purpose of regulating the affairs of the whole Union by the standard of the slaveholding interest, the disproportionate numbers of this section in the electoral colleges have enabled them, in ten out of twelve quadriennial elections, to confer the chief magistracy on one of their own citizens. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
  • The southern slaveholding judges and lawyers argued for a system that enslaved human beings, bought and sold them as chattels, and tortured them with horsewhips, and sought to expand that system into the free territories. Balkinization
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