slaveholder
IPA: sɫˈeɪvhoʊɫdɝ
noun
- Someone who owns slaves.
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Examples of "slaveholder" in Sentences
- Polk was a slaveholder for his entire life.
- Tyler was a slaveholder for his entire life.
- _The slaveholder is the soul of the whole system_.
- He supported slavery and was a slaveholder himself.
- They will look upon a slaveholder just so, by and by.
- The state reimbursed the slaveholders for their slaves.
- Branch at one time owned over of land and was a slaveholder.
- Manumission by American slaveholders was restricted by laws in many states.
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- Although a slaveholder, Doniphan advocated the gradual elimination of slavery.
- The Legislation of the Republic is in the hands of this handful of Slaveholders.
- Resistance to the slaveholder is the same in kind which Washington made against British aggression and servitude.
- For that reason he was called a slaveholder, and a fellow senator once openly accused him of shaping his course as a public man to accord with his private interests.
- We intend to show, as in the clear light of noonday, that it is the conduct of Mr. Sumner and other abolitionists, and not that of the slaveholder, which is rebuked by the life and writings of the great apostle.
- He looked at nearly everything in politics and society from what might be called the slaveholder's point of view, and suspected me, on the other hand, of disguising reprobation of the South and its institutions in any praise of the North or of France or England which I might utter.
- The abolitionists have been labouring for the last fifteen years, in season and out of season, in the midst of obloquy and reproach, in the midst of mobs and various kinds of opposition, to establish the conviction that slave-holding is a sin, and that the slaveholder is a sinner, and ought to be treated as such.
- United States not only believed in slavery, but bought and sold women and babes in the name of Jesus Christ, this infidel, this wretch who is now burning in the flames of hell, lifted his voice against human slavery and said: "It is robbery, and a slaveholder is a thief; the whipper of women is a barbarian; the seller of a child is a savage."
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