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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

  • Self-interest was the worst sin and slaveholding was the worst form of self-interest.
  • Constitution as "radically and essentially slaveholding," but many were committed antinomians and "no-government" men — slavery being a paradigmatic instance of the violence inherent in all rule. Claremont.org
  • Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers.
  • One of the primary means of Douglass's early success as an abolitionist lecturer was his skill as a mimic - in particular, his burlesques of slaveholding consciousness.
  • And must not this conclusion be strengthened, when they hear ministers of talent and learning declare that the Bible does sanction slaveholding, and that it ought not to be made a disciplinable offence in churches? Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life
  • In this respect, the narratives show the masters as individuals who struggle with the moral problems posed by slaveholding.
  • the slaveholding South
  • He offers a few simple tables of population, wealth, occupation, and slaveholdings culled from the census.
  • That's exactly how the slaveholding Confederates described the Civil War, and how diehard ‘southern patriots’ describe it today.
  • What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the _slaveholding religion_ of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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