slaveholding

Slaveholding households in the state typically had only one or two.

We won’t be able to hold onto the eight remaining slaveholding states just by giving up Sumter.

As he went from one Friends' meeting to another, he expressed his concern about slaveholding.

Although this did not affect slaveholding in Kentucky at the time, owners felt threatened.

State sovereignty, in other words, gave the laws of the slaveholding states extra-jurisdictional effect.

His slaveholding put him in the category of major Southern planters, those with more than 20 slaves.

They blamed slaveholding rebels for having made the reckless and suicidal decision to go to war.

Slaveholding interests fully grasped the danger that this strategy posed to them.

In this area, settlers tended to be yeoman farmers, and slaveholding was limited.

Binford built the first home in the area, and became one of the region's most successful slaveholding planters.

The theological importance of the book was that Bourne identified slaveholding as a sin.

Slaveholding in urban areas tended to be less rigid than in the rural South.

In other cases, the reverse happens: a once-accepted behavior like slaveholding comes to be seen as repugnant.

Quakers opposed slavery, and by about 1790 had eliminated slaveholding from among their membership.

Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.

Yet even the ardent opponents of slaveholding could seldom if ever acknowledge this basic fact."

From 1755-1776, the Quakers worked at freeing slaves, and became the first western organization in history to ban slaveholding.

But it also would have called attention to his slaveholding in the President's House, and put him at risk of losing those slaves to manumission.

He also strongly resented the attempts of the South to legalize slaveholding in the North.

New York City was the first national capital under the Constitution, and had no laws restricting slaveholding.

Emancipation remained by no means a foregone conclusion at the start of the war, though events soon began to move against slaveholding interests in Maryland.

It may be that slaveholding will be eliminated from Christendom by a fashionable theory of developments.

They hoped for slaveholding states to acquire greater power in the U.S. Congress.

He appealed only to the “ignorant and blind lick-spittles” rather than to “the slaveholding and enlightened portion of the people.”

In slaveholding areas of the United States, the torturous murder of a slave was illegal.