What is "slaveholder"

Usage examples of "slaveholder".

By the terms of the third measure, the territory east of California won from Mexico was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and they were opened to settlement by both slaveholders and antislavery settlers.

The abolitionists, in supporting themselves on humanity in its generality, regardless of individual and territorial rights, can recognize no state, no civil authority, and therefore are as much out of the order of civilization, and as much in that of barbarism, as is the slaveholder himself.

The principle on which he acts is as indefensible as the personal or egoistical democracy of the slaveholders and their sympathizers.

Keckley opposed the central element that the Confederacy stood for, but she was prepared to grant the slaveholders had shown good sense in electing a gentleman like Jefferson Davis as their President for the next six years, if the rebellion succeeded.

Lincoln cuts your confiscation paragraph outand I doubt if he will, since he certainly agrees with the philosophythen it will come to the attention of a few of our radical friends that Simon Cameron at least tried to strike a blow against the slaveholders in rebellion.

Reverend Elial Starbuck was much keener to punish the slaveholders than actually free the slaves.

This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think.

Continental Congress, because slaveholders themselves disagreed about the desirability of ending the slave trade.

She was particularly curious about the Virginians, wondering if, as slaveholders, they had the necessary commitment to the cause of freedom.

Cookman had labored faithfully with slaveholders, whenever he met them, to induce them to emancipate their bondmen, and that he did this as a religious duty.

But Rhoodie had also spoken of Lincoln treating the Confederate States as conquered provinces after their defeat, and that proved nothing but a lie: even with the war all but won, Lincoln had tried to get the Federal Congress to compensate Southern slaveholders for the animate property they were losing.

Abler defenders of the doctrine of fellowshiping slaveholders as christians, have not been met with.

Let him inspire them with abhorrence of the man-stealer – the slaveholder.

Cline had one custom often seen among slaveholders: he would take a long rest in the afternoon, then an hour before quitting time he would appear lively and fresh.

Located on the Ohio River across from the slave state of Kentucky, the city was filled with former slaves and slaveholders.