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Definition of Slaveholding
1. Noun. The practice of owning slaves.
2. Adjective. Allowing slavery. "The slaveholding South"
Definition of Slaveholding
1. a. Holding persons in slavery.
Definition of Slaveholding
1. Adjective. Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves. ¹
2. Noun. An owning of one or more slaves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slaveholding
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaveholding
Literary usage of Slaveholding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1863)
"Sir, there is no mistaking the signs of the times ; and it is high time that the
Southern States, the slaveholding States, should inquire what is now their ..."
2. The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary by Michael W. Cluskey (1860)
"Here we find him in slavery ; here we find him also a free man in both the
slaveholding and non-slave- holding states. The best specimen of the free black ..."
3. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1858)
"This appears from the whole tenor of the debates, in which the line is constantly
drawn, as between slaveholding and non-slaveholding States, so as to throw ..."
4. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1858)
"This appears from the whole tenor of the debates, in which the line is constantly
drawn, as between slaveholding and non-slaveholding States, so as to throw ..."
5. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1860)
"... non-slaveholding States, so as to throw eight States upon the Northern and
five upon the Southern side. I have found also, in a newspaper of that period ..."
6. The Power of Congress Over the District of Columbia by Theodore Dwight Weld (1838)
"The competency of the law-making power to abolish slavery, has teen recognised
by all the slaveholding States, either directly or by implication. ..."
7. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1861)
"This appears from the whole tenor of the debates, in which the line is constantly
drawn, as between slaveholding and non-slaveholding States, so as to throw ..."
8. The Progress of Slavery in the United States by George Melville Weston (1857)
"Impossibility of improvement of the non- slaveholding whites. ... Non-slaveholding
whites in slave countries have no capacity to become artisans and build ..."
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