Slaveholders in a sentence

The original Constitutional Convention was held in secret by a handful of rich white men — predominantly slaveholders — who designed a system to preserve their own wealth and power.

So, again, the dynamic was one in which greedy slaveholders used and perpetuated racism to sustain their reign of exploitation and terror.

The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government.

Two of the university’s original board trustees, William Goldsborough and Alexander Keech, were also slaveholders.

As baffling as it is to find statues of traitors, slaveholders and killers of Union soldiers ensconced in many a prominent square, consider the historical discordance of Custer County, South Dakota.

Cotton root was used so often by enslaved women in America that warnings appeared about it in advice manuals for slaveholders.

Demonstrators recently have torn down monuments to Confederate generals, colonial figures and slaveholders nationwide, prompting the president to sign an executive order calling for jail time for protesters who damage monuments.

Scholars who’ve studied Black Catholics’ history have been harsh in their assessments — for example, detailing how numerous Catholic institutions and civic leaders were major slaveholders.

They argue not against Lincoln but the statue’s depiction of a freed slave, which they described as the result of toxic view held by slaveholders and even abolitionists.

What does she tell her students about living in a land where slaveholders created what they called the Land of the Free?

In 1825, Haiti started to pay France reparations — the equivalent today of $21 billion — to compensate the French slaveholders it had fought to overthrow.

Parsa said 34 of the 47 men depicted in the famous “Declaration of Independence” painting were slaveholders.

It linked to a story illustrated with images of slaves that reads: "In the 19th century, all slaveholders were Democrats.

It would have been extremely hypocritical for our city to launch a wide-scale commemoration for the 50th anniversary of King's assassination and still allow the statues of slaveholders to stand in positions of honor.

Of course, "Scott" has other beefs with D'Souza beyond mere facts, because D'Souza has moved past attacking liberals, and is now attacking racism by trying to associate Democrats with slaveholders and Nazis.

The ascendant American Republicans running the country were powerful in the South and respected the fears of slaveholders in that region.

After the Confederate States of America were defeated in the American Civil War in 1865, many former slaveholders continued to run plantations by moving to Havana.

Also in the postwar years, individual slaveholders, particularly in the Upper South, manumitted slaves, sometimes in their wills.

Among the Five Civilized Tribes, mixed-race slaveholders were generally part of an elite hierarchy, often based on their mothers' clan status, as the societies had matrilineal systems.

At the same time, slaveholders in the South opposed having free blacks in their midst, as they believed the free people threatened the stability of their slave societies.