slaveholding
- adjective
- /ˈsleɪvˌhoʊldɪŋ/
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esclavista
- Rome, like most ancient societies and, and really most societies throughout throughout history, was a slaveholding society.
Examples
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I mean, they both came from, well, they both came from slaveholding families.
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Sundown towns did not occur in the traditional, slaveholding South where, even after the Civil War, cheap black labor was still a necessary component of the economy; in contrast, they proved quite common.
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But we can't, we can't leave this question of Puritan slaveholding just yet.
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Or maybe whites were loath to admit that their slaveholding patriarchal society had lost control of the group that was supposed to be its most powerless.
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S.C. Address to the people of the Slaveholding States (Dec. 1860): "Experience has proved that slaveholding states cannot be safe in subjection to non-slaveholding states."
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These defenders of slavery admitted that the Declaration of Independence breathed a spirit of hostility to slavery, and that even slaveholding Founders like Jefferson were against it.
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Many historical events were influenced by the policies of slaveholding societies.
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The ethics of slaveholding practices have been debated for centuries.
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In the 19th century, slaveholding families often owned multiple plantations.
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Etymology
Slaveholding joins slave ('a person forced to work for someone else') and holding ('keeping' or 'owning'). So a slaveholding person, family, or place is one that owns or keeps enslaved people.