What is "slaveholders"

Usage examples of "slaveholders".

South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.

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.