slaveholding
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈsleɪvˌhoʊldɪŋ/
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- For such men, and even for their less radical compatriots, Missouri's slaveholding class represented exactly what they had detested in the old country, exactly what they had wanted to escape: a swaggering clique of landed oligarchs.
Examples
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During the first three years of the project, as director and editor, I traveled to about 200 county courthouses, state and local archives, and libraries in the fifteen former slaveholding states and the District of Columbia.
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Emmett Curran has written a compelling essay on Jesuit slaveholding that shows the material and spiritual neglect of slaves in Jesuit care.
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No one walked away from slaveholding and slavery with as much to lose; they simply gave up the plantation and moved on.
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Because domestic slavery was not inherently evil, slaveholding was not necessarily sinful.
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Between 1771 and 1772, colonists increased their slaveholdings from 4,716 to 5,862 slaves, a nine percent increase in a single year.
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The community contained planters, prosperous small slaveholding farmers, ranchers, urban professionals, rural artisans, independent yeomen, and landless day laborers.
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Traveling in America during the early nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that hostility to blacks was much stronger in the states where slavery was virtually extinct than in the slaveholding regions.
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The slaveholding practices of the 19th century have left a lasting impact on American society.
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Many historical documents reveal the complexities of slaveholding in different regions of the country.
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The museum exhibition highlighted the brutal realities of slaveholding and its effects on both slaves and society.
Synonyms
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4.8
A system where people are owned and forced to work without pay or rights
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6.3
Being forced to work for someone as their slave
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slaveholding joins slave ('a person forced to work for someone else') and holding ('keeping' or 'owning'). It literally means the practice of keeping slaves, so it refers to owning and keeping people as property.