Slaveholder in a sentence

Your continued existence is an affront to humanity, you traitorous slaveholder-worshipping piece of shiat.

Amid celebrations of Juneteenth across the state and nation, West Hartford began June 19 with a ceremony on the town green, which was named for an 18th-century slaveholder.

Benjamin Franklin, also a slaveholder for much of his life, became a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the first recognized organization for abolitionists in the United States.

Taking a somewhat different approach, the conservative provocateur Dinesh D’Souza Harris could not claim to be a descendant of slaves, and thus an African-American, because one of her ancestors may have been a slaveholder.

The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder.

The son of a white slaveholder and a black slave, Douglass became, along with Lincoln, post-Founding America’s most important exponent of the natural rights argument summarized in the Declaration of Independence.

We might have a last-second showdown on Capitol Hill between the executive and the legislature with U.S. military readiness hanging in the balance because Trump won’t budge on honoring the heroes of the American south’s defunct slaveholder regime.

Jackson reported that Sheegog was a local slaveholder in Oxford, and when he didn’t have work for the enslaved people, he hired the slaves out to the university.

More than three years ago, Tubman was approved to replace President Andrew Jackson, a slaveholder and President Donald Trump’s favorite president, as the face of the $20 bill in 2020.

This leads me back to Prager and to the university named, at least indirectly, for the slaveholder Penn.

Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, author of Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion urged attendees Monday to participate in the Poor People’s Campaign with the same type of fervor that one might offer those seeking salvation.

There’s a catch to this: Embree was a slaveholder, too.

Although a slaveholder, he did not want slavery to expand into the Northwest Territory, as he believed the institution should end.

As tensions increased, in 1844 the Home Mission Society refused to appoint a slaveholder as a missionary who had been proposed by Georgia.

By 1860, the largest slaveholder owned 16 slaves.sfn Although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms, the state had mostly ended the practice.

By the Civil War era, sources referred to him as Nathaniel Turner, referring to him by the name of his master, as was the white slaveholder custom of the time.

Clay, a slaveholder, presided over a party in which its Southern wing was sufficiently committed to the national platform to put partisan loyalties above slavery expansionist proposals that might undermine its North-South alliance.

He continued to say that, with Augustus' death and swearing of loyalty to Tiberius, the people of Rome simply traded one slaveholder for another.

In the South, they stressed that he was a Louisiana slaveholder, while in the North they highlighted his Whiggish willingness to defer to Congress on major issues (which he subsequently did not do).

Southerner Whigs looked hopefully to slaveholder and war hero General Zachary Taylor as the solution to the widening sectional divide even though he took no public stance on the Wilmot Proviso.