slaveholding
slaveholding adjective: having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
Adjective
slaveholding (not comparable)
- Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
Noun
slaveholding (countable and uncountable, plural slaveholdings)
- The institution or practice of owning slaves.
- The slaveholding way of life continued until 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed following the end of the Civil War between the Northern and the Southern states1992, Jonathan Gorman, Understanding history
- Defenders of Southern slavery employed religious rhetoric to justify the system, selecting biblical passages that appeared to condone the practice of slaveholding and the relation between master and slave.2013, Rebecca Fraser, Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America
- An owning of one or more slaves.
- On the other hand, the Mountain South also contained some Lower South counties, thereby permitting internal comparisons between differently sized slaveholdings, between crop specializations, and between agricultural and nonagricultural producers.2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 6
Forms of slaveholding
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Origin of slaveholding
From slave + holding.
Questions about slaveholding
- What does slaveholding mean?
- Slaveholding means having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
- What part of speech is slaveholding?
- Slaveholding can be an adjective or a noun.
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