Slaveholding
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Slaveholding is an adjective meaning Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
Meaning
Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) The institution or practice of owning slaves.
- (countable) An owning of one or more slaves.
Example Sentences
The slaveholding way of life continued until 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed following the end of the Civil War between the Northern and the Southern states
Defenders of Southern slavery employed religious rhetoric to justify the system, selecting biblical passages that appeared to condone the practice of slaveholding and the relation between master and slave.
On the other hand, the Mountain South also contained some Lower South counties, thereby permitting internal comparisons between differently sized slaveholdings, between crop specializations, and between agricultural and nonagricultural producers.
Word Forms
- slaveholdings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slave, bond, shipholding, forepossessed, rightsholding, deedholding.
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