slaveholders in English
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.
Use "slaveholders" in a sentence
1. If slavery was sin, then churches would have to dis-fellowship slaveholders; and slaveholders, Abolitionists hoped, would give up slavery sooner than they would give up their church.
2. Slaveholders will be compensated for their losses, of course, at fair prices.
3. (adjective) 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 …
4. There is no authority for the contention that colonization promoted emancipation when the records show that the majority of slaveholders who supported it had in mind the expatriation of the free Negroes who among the Bondmen were a living testimony against slavery.
5. For many years, historians celebrated these compromises as valiant efforts to save the union, but more recently, historians have begun to question whether they should instead be characterized as Appeasements of slaveholders, who often got the better end of the bargain.[2] People and terms