How do you use Slaveholding in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like slave or slavery, plus the exact meaning.
Slaveholding meaning
Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
Using Slaveholding
- The main meaning on this page is: Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
- Useful related words include: slave, slavery, practice, pattern.
- In the example corpus, slaveholding often appears in combinations such as: the slaveholding, slaveholding states, largest slaveholding.
Context around Slaveholding
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Slaveholding
- In this selection, "slaveholding" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, largest, states, past and family stand out and add context to how "slaveholding" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the slaveholding planter class and carolina to slaveholding state19s which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "slaveholding" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with slaveholding
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As one of the largest slaveholding states, Alabama was among the first six states to secede. (16 words)
Mr. Fisher said that Lincoln had chosen war over negotiations with the slaveholding states in the South. (17 words)
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996) * Faust, Drew Gilpin. (17 words)
And the slaveholding planter class would witness the rise of an organized movement to stop the expansion of slavery and curb the power enslavers held over key institutions like the Senate and the Supreme Court. (35 words)
Calhoun was concerned with protecting the interests of the Southern States (which he identified with the interests of their slaveholding elites) as a distinct and beleaguered minority among the members of the federal Union. (34 words)
Johnson, a slaveholding senator from a Southern state, made a major speech in the Senate the following May in an attempt to convince his colleagues that the Homestead Bill and slavery were not incompatible. (34 words)
Example sentences (15)
At the same time, however, historians here do not try to whitewash Schuyler’s personal connection with slaveholding, including at the mansion, said Heidi L. Hill, the site’s manager.
About an America, about a military moving toward a more perfect union, and not stuck in its slaveholding past.
It's the culmination of a major reckoning over local connections to the Cameron family -- once the largest slaveholding family in the state -- dating back to 2020.
And the slaveholding planter class would witness the rise of an organized movement to stop the expansion of slavery and curb the power enslavers held over key institutions like the Senate and the Supreme Court.
Mr. Fisher said that Lincoln had chosen war over negotiations with the slaveholding states in the South.
They joined with two other orders — the of Saint Catharine and the — to host a prayer service in 2000 where they formally apologized for their slaveholding.
Among the ordinances of secession passed by the individual states, those of three – Texas, Alabama, and Virginia – specifically mentioned the plight of the 'slaveholding states' at the hands of northern abolitionists.
As one of the largest slaveholding states, Alabama was among the first six states to secede.
Calhoun was concerned with protecting the interests of the Southern States (which he identified with the interests of their slaveholding elites) as a distinct and beleaguered minority among the members of the federal Union.
In the context leading up to the American Civil War (1861–65), on master-slave relationships was one of the Bible verses used by Confederate slaveholders in support of a slaveholding position.
It maintained the existing ban on international slave-trading while protecting the existing internal trade of slaves among slaveholding states.
Johnson, a slaveholding senator from a Southern state, made a major speech in the Senate the following May in an attempt to convince his colleagues that the Homestead Bill and slavery were not incompatible.
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996) * Faust, Drew Gilpin.
Prior to the Civil War, Montgomery County allied itself with other slaveholding counties in southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore.
Rhett included a lengthy attack on tariffs in the Address of South Carolina to Slaveholding State19s, which the convention adopted on December 25, 1860 to accompany its secession ordinance.
Common combinations with slaveholding
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: