Sentence example with the word 'slaveholders'

slaveholders

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He was bitterly denounced by slaveholders and also by such non-slaveholders as disapproved of all antislavery agitation, and in January 1827 he was assaulted and seriously injured by a slave-trader, Austin Woolfolk, whom he had severely criticized in his paper.   [Please select]

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Slaveholders would, on some such occasions, show wonderful liberality in letting their old slaves go free, when they could work no more.   [Please select]

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He had heard the slaveholders "curse" Boston so much, that he concluded it must be a pretty safe place for the fugitive.   [Please select]

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The question was raised in the convention whether or not fellowship should be held with slaveholders.   [Please select]

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The Fugitive Slave Law roused the spirit of freedom, and Northern defiance of the law inflamed the slaveholders.   [Please select]

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The Supreme Court of the United States supported the contentions of the slaveholders, but in vain for their cause.   [Please select]

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"It was the creation, both in letter and spirit, of the slaveholders of the South."   [Please select]

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