Sentence example with the word 'slaveholder'

slaveholder

Definition n. someone who holds slaves

Last update: September 27, 2015


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He was lukewarm toward recognizing the independence of Texas, lest it should aid the increase of slave territory, and generally favoured the freedom of speech and press as regards the question of slavery; yet his various concessions and compromises resulted, as he himself declared, in the abolitionists denouncing him as a slaveholder, and the slaveholders as an abolitionist.   [Please select]

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There were, moreover, jealousies among his generals, and suppressed hostility to him, as an aristocrat, a slaveholder, and an Episcopalian.   [Please select]

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While the slaveholder claimed that she belonged to him, he said _that she was free_.   [Please select]

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Your father was but yesterday a slaveholder----" Ben grinned: "Yes, your slave-trading grandfather sold them to us the day before.   [Please select]

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There'll be poetic justice in setting up my establishment in a fallen slaveholder's mansion.'   [Please select]

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The non-slaveholders would have left the country, and the small slaveholder must have sold out to his more fortunate neighbor.   [Please select]

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Mason of Virginia, a slaveholder himself, was hardly less outspoken, saying: "Slavery discourages arts and manufactures."   [Please select]

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He was born the property of a slaveholder, by the name of Daniel Minne, residing in Alexandria in Virginia.   [Please select]

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The slaveholder waited awhile, the man not making his appearance, then said: "Well, now, Mr."   [Please select]

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It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives.   [Please select]

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He had said in the October before: "It is time that a voice of remonstrance went forth from the North, that should peal in the ears of every slaveholder like a roar of thunder."   [Please select]

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