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Definition of Slaveholders
1. slaveholder [n] - See also: slaveholder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaveholders
Literary usage of Slaveholders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1860)
"Not at the persecution of a few thousand slaveholders, but at the restitution of
natural rights and prerogatives to several millions of non-slaveholders, ..."
2. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice by Charles Elliott (1851)
"THE non-slaveholders, in the slave states, partake greatly of the evil effects of
... Different from the slaveholders in rank, wealth, and associations, ..."
3. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child (1861)
"Sketches of Neighboring slaveholders. IX. ... slaveholders. THERE was a planter
in the country, not far from us, whom I will call Mr. Litch. ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Condition and Prospects of the African Race in the by An American (1839)
"APPEAL TO slaveholders. I. Design of the writer. slaveholders and abolitionists
ignorant of each other. II. Character of abolitionists misunderstood ..."
5. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Unjustice by Charles Elliott, Benjamin Franklin Tefft (1851)
"The rule of federal numbers, confined by the Constitution to the appointment of
representatives, has been extended, by the influence of slaveholders, ..."
6. Address of John Quincy Adams, to His Constituents of the Twelfth by John Quincy Adams (1842)
"of the nine Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, are slaveholders.
The Commander-in-Chief of your army, and the General next in command, ..."
7. "Liberty" by Julius Rubens Ames (1837)
"Further these same persons, who 'can't believe' that slaveholders arc во iron-hearted
as to ill-treat their slaves, believe that the very elite of these ..."
8. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1857)
"Not at the persecution of a few thousand slaveholders, but at the restitution of
natural rights and prerogatives to several millions of non-slaveholders, ..."
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