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slaveholdings

slaveholdings is the plural of slaveholding.

Meaning of slaveholding

Noun

slaveholding (countable and uncountable, plural slaveholdings)

  1. (uncountable) 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
  2. (countable) 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

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Questions about slaveholdings

What is slaveholdings the plural of?
Slaveholdings is the plural of slaveholding.

Words near slaveholdings in the dictionary

  1. slavegirl
  2. slavegirls
  3. slaveholder
  4. slaveholders
  5. slaveholding
  6. slaveholdings
  7. slavehood
  8. slavehoods
  9. slaveish
  10. slaveless
  11. slavelessness

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