Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who owns or holds slaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who owns slaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who holds slaves.
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- noun Someone who owns
slaves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who holds slaves
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Examples
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_The slaveholder is the soul of the whole system_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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We intend to show, as in the clear light of noonday, that it is the conduct of Mr. Sumner and other abolitionists, and not that of the slaveholder, which is rebuked by the life and writings of the great apostle.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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_The slaveholder is the soul of the whole system_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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_The slaveholder is the soul of the whole system_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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The abolitionists have been labouring for the last fifteen years, in season and out of season, in the midst of obloquy and reproach, in the midst of mobs and various kinds of opposition, to establish the conviction that slave-holding is a sin, and that the slaveholder is a sinner, and ought to be treated as such.
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For that reason he was called a slaveholder, and a fellow senator once openly accused him of shaping his course as a public man to accord with his private interests.
Stephen Arnold Douglas William Garrott Brown 1890
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He looked at nearly everything in politics and society from what might be called the slaveholder's point of view, and suspected me, on the other hand, of disguising reprobation of the South and its institutions in any praise of the North or of France or England which I might utter.
Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 Edwin Lawrence Godkin 1866
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United States not only believed in slavery, but bought and sold women and babes in the name of Jesus Christ, this infidel, this wretch who is now burning in the flames of hell, lifted his voice against human slavery and said: "It is robbery, and a slaveholder is a thief; the whipper of women is a barbarian; the seller of a child is a savage."
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Robert Green Ingersoll 1866
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Resistance to the slaveholder is the same in kind which Washington made against British aggression and servitude.
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Cincinnati Black Blog: Keyes: Obama holds 'slaveholder's' view skip to main
Keyes: Obama holds 'slaveholder's' view Nathaniel Livingston 2004
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