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Definition of slaveholder in English: slaveholdernounˈsleɪvhəʊldəˈsleɪvˌhoʊldər historical A person who owned slaves. 〈史〉奴隶拥有者,奴隶主 Example sentencesExamples - He would stand against the slaveholders unless they happened to be powerful, wealthy Northerners like Jefferson and Washington.
- They accept Washington and Jefferson as slaveholders rather than as lawgivers of genius.
- Men from the mountains and the coast, rich and poor, slaveholders and nonslaveholders, urbanites and rural residents all pledged their lives to defend the antebellum South.
- But as long as the political monopoly of the slaveholders was broken, enfranchised blacks would have the power to prevent the re-emergence of aristocracy and inequality.
- The same misguided values that have made slaveholders, Indian-killers, and militarists the heroes of our history books still operate today.
- Other critics, North and South, blamed slavery for encouraging an aristocratic love of luxurious leisure and a despotic temperament among the slaveholders.
- Were it not for the brave soldiers who liberated my father from Dachau, and my mother and her family from the Nazi slaveholders, I would not be here today.
- Overall we can think of the slaveholder as more able and more eager to get more slaves.
- Brisbane eventually sold his field hands as an act of divestiture for the sake of conscience, which only exacerbated animosity as it pricked the consciences of other slaveholders.
- For instance, many of the ‘fathers’ of our constitution were rich, white, male landholders and slaveholders.
- Worse still, Massachusetts Antifederalists expected their representatives to offer little resistance against slaveholders ' corrupting influence.
- Likewise, slaveholders and non-slaveholders discounted the labor of other bound workers, as well as wives and children.
- Free trade would allow European competitors to drive out Virginia's white mechanics, increasing the political power of cotton-state slaveholders.
- For nearly a century, Congress regulated slavery's existence and protected the property rights slaveholders claimed to have over their human chattel.
- You're going to do the same thing those slaveholders did, put a money price on something that can't possibly be quantified in that way.
- In defense, embattled slaveholders clung ever more fiercely to a paternalistic rhetoric that posited slaves as inherently inferior and permanently dependent.
- State laws barred such removal of soon-to-be-free slaves, but New York slaveholders and out-of-state slave traders regularly engaged in such illegal behavior.
- Then there's the question of who would be responsible for paying up - the U.S. government, corporations, or individual descendants of slaveholders.
- Some have suggested that slaveholders had to compromise their authority in order to go to war, and that the upshot of industrialization must have been the diminution of planter power.
- As we shall see, black river workers and their riverside friends were at the root of innumerable problems slaveholders faced in the thriving commercial economy of the antebellum West.
Derivativesnoun historical On the Capitol flagpole, the Lone Star flies below the American flag, emblem of the few brief years when slaveholding Texas was its own republic. Example sentencesExamples - In this respect, the narratives show the masters as individuals who struggle with the moral problems posed by slaveholding.
- He offers a few simple tables of population, wealth, occupation, and slaveholdings culled from the census.
- Slave owners expect such higher prices in the future, which may lead to more slaveholding.
- And it's as relevant to today's Middle East as it was to slaveholding America.
Definition of slaveholder in US English: slaveholdernounˈslāvˌhōldərˈsleɪvˌhoʊldər historical An owner of slaves. Example sentencesExamples - Free trade would allow European competitors to drive out Virginia's white mechanics, increasing the political power of cotton-state slaveholders.
- He would stand against the slaveholders unless they happened to be powerful, wealthy Northerners like Jefferson and Washington.
- But as long as the political monopoly of the slaveholders was broken, enfranchised blacks would have the power to prevent the re-emergence of aristocracy and inequality.
- State laws barred such removal of soon-to-be-free slaves, but New York slaveholders and out-of-state slave traders regularly engaged in such illegal behavior.
- Other critics, North and South, blamed slavery for encouraging an aristocratic love of luxurious leisure and a despotic temperament among the slaveholders.
- Brisbane eventually sold his field hands as an act of divestiture for the sake of conscience, which only exacerbated animosity as it pricked the consciences of other slaveholders.
- Men from the mountains and the coast, rich and poor, slaveholders and nonslaveholders, urbanites and rural residents all pledged their lives to defend the antebellum South.
- Then there's the question of who would be responsible for paying up - the U.S. government, corporations, or individual descendants of slaveholders.
- In defense, embattled slaveholders clung ever more fiercely to a paternalistic rhetoric that posited slaves as inherently inferior and permanently dependent.
- Worse still, Massachusetts Antifederalists expected their representatives to offer little resistance against slaveholders ' corrupting influence.
- Some have suggested that slaveholders had to compromise their authority in order to go to war, and that the upshot of industrialization must have been the diminution of planter power.
- For instance, many of the ‘fathers’ of our constitution were rich, white, male landholders and slaveholders.
- Likewise, slaveholders and non-slaveholders discounted the labor of other bound workers, as well as wives and children.
- The same misguided values that have made slaveholders, Indian-killers, and militarists the heroes of our history books still operate today.
- They accept Washington and Jefferson as slaveholders rather than as lawgivers of genius.
- As we shall see, black river workers and their riverside friends were at the root of innumerable problems slaveholders faced in the thriving commercial economy of the antebellum West.
- Overall we can think of the slaveholder as more able and more eager to get more slaves.
- Were it not for the brave soldiers who liberated my father from Dachau, and my mother and her family from the Nazi slaveholders, I would not be here today.
- For nearly a century, Congress regulated slavery's existence and protected the property rights slaveholders claimed to have over their human chattel.
- You're going to do the same thing those slaveholders did, put a money price on something that can't possibly be quantified in that way.
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