Definition of Slaveholdings

1. slaveholding [n] - See also: slaveholding

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaveholdings

slaveborn
slaveboys
slaved
slaved away
slavedealer
slavedealers
slavedealing
slavedom
slavedoms
slavegirl
slavegirls
slaveholder
slaveholders
slaveholding
slaveholdings (current term)
slaveless
slavelike
slavemaster
slavemasters
slaveowner
slaveowners
slavered
slaverer
slaverers
slaveries
slavering
slaveringly
slavers

Literary usage of Slaveholdings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Agrarian Revolt in Georgia, 1865-1912 by Bobert Preston Brooks (1914)
"At the close of the ante-bellum period, the coast was the region of largest slaveholdings in the state. The average was twenty per owner (for the state, ..."

2. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1918)
"The Ordinance of 1787, however, though it was not strictly enforced, made slaveholdings north of the Ohio negligible from any but an antiquarian point of ..."

3. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1918)
"The Ordinance of 1787, however, though it was not strictly enforced, made slaveholdings north of the Ohio negligible from any but an antiquarian point of ..."

4. Annual Report of the American Historical Association by American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution Press (1904)
"The slaveholdings were as follows: Slaves each. 1 Slaves each. ... 18 1 family 56 Total slaveholdings, 269. Total number of slaves, 2394. ..."

5. A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1921)
"See Phillips's article on the tionary status of slaveholdings in the "Origin and Growth of the Southern older cotton region and especially in Black Belts" ..."

6. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1909)
"... became a district of specially large slaveholdings, whether for cotton or sugar production, and specially subject to spasms of inflation and depression. ..."

7. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1955)
"... familia who were selected in their cult colleges as magistri, his actual slaveholdings must have been larger, but how much larger cannot be ascertained. ..."

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