Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Holding or possessing human beings as slaves: as, slave-holding States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Holding persons in slavery.
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- adjective Having possession/ownership of one or more
slaves . - noun An owning of one or more
slaves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective allowing slavery
- noun the practice of owning slaves
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although the brutality of her fictional Maryland slaveholding is actually not as bad as the real Carolinas plantation described by Fanny Kemble a little later in time, it seems more shocking to have it witnessed by someone who is a contemporary of ours.
April Books 1) Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler 50books_poc 2009
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For an interesting view of what these household dynamics meant in slaveholding society, see Stephanie McCurry,
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Time and again, Bolívar compromised with Latin American slaveholding elites in order to secure their support, allowing slavery to continue.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
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What becomes then of the arguments and denunciations of slaveholding, which is despotism on a small scale?
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Some will, no doubt, attribute this in part to the disparity between the lower classes in the South, and what they choose to term the slaveholding aristocracy.
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward
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She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some of what is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.
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She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some of what is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave Written by Himself Bibb, Henry 1849
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She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some ofwhat is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb Bibb, Henry, b. 1815 1849
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She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some of what is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb : an American slave : written by himself, 1849
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She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some of what is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself Henry Bibb 1834
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