Sentence example with the word 'slaveholding'

slaveholding

Definition adj. allowing slavery

Last update: July 31, 2015


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In 1782 the sect forbade slaveholding by its members.   [Please select]

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The Missouri legislature protested against the principle of the Wilmot Proviso, and instructed her senators and representatives to vote with the slaveholding states.   [Please select]

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The Bureau was soon organized in all the former slaveholding States except Delaware, with general headquarters in Washington and state headquarters at the various capitals.   [Please select]

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Booth wielding the assassin's weapon is but the embodiment of the bowie-knife barbarism of a slaveholding oligarchy.   [Please select]

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They talked of their antislavery campaigns and the infamous compromises made by Congress to pacify the powerful slaveholding interests.   [Please select]

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The number of these would have been larger had there been less rigid restrictions upon slaveholding.   [Please select]

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Being himself of the slaveholding class, he was peculiarly fitted to appreciate their position.   [Please select]

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