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  • noun Plural form of slavedealer.

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Examples

  • On Easter Sunday he preached a sermon against slavery in its very stronghold, that is, before the viceroy, his ministers, and the leading slaveholders and slavedealers.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • On Easter Sunday he preached a sermon against slavery in its very stronghold, that is, before the viceroy, his ministers, and the leading slaveholders and slavedealers.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • On Easter Sunday he preached a sermon against slavery in its very stronghold, that is, before the viceroy, his ministers, and the leading slaveholders and slavedealers.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • But why hold slavedealers as despicable, if their trade is lawful and virtuous? and why despise them more than the

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • But you may say, we all despise slavedealers as much as any one can; they are never admitted into genteel or respectable society.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • But why hold slavedealers as despicable, if their trade is lawful and virtuous? and why despise them more than the

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Third, that the fact of slavery having been the subject of prophecy, furnishes _no_ excuse whatever to slavedealers.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • There is no difference in _principle_, in _Christian ethics_, between the despised slavedealer and the _Christian_ who buys slaves from, or sells slaves to him; indeed, if slaves were not wanted by the respectable, the wealthy, and the religious in a community, there would be no slaves in that community, and of course no _slavedealers_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • But you may say, we all despise slavedealers as much as any one can; they are never admitted into genteel or respectable society.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

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