16 example sentences using slaveholding.
Slaveholding used in a sentence
Slaveholding in a sentence as a noun
But the founders of the USA were mostly slaveholding bigots.
He's not justifying Franklin's slaveholding, he's justifying Franklin as a person.
As satisfying as it might seem to just shoot the slaveholding bastards instead, that ends up being even worse in humanitarian terms.
For example, by claiming that the Founding Fathers were slaveholding bigots, or that early settlers were genocidal.
Great Britain ended slavery in its colonies well before 1860, but the British slaveholding interest was much smaller than in the US. France ended it later, and again, the vested interest we much smaller.
That’s not strictly true; the original intention was for slaveholding states to have a roughly equal voice in presidential elections without letting slaves vote.
For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slaveholding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery.
The realization that many plantation slaves would be better utilized as doctors and lawyers did not free the slaves, nor did economic competition from non-slaveholding plantations.
Slaveholding in a sentence as an adjective
Slavery obviously redistributes wealth from enslaved people to a slaveholding aristocracy, but that comes at the expense of economic growth for the country overall.
The document you linked says as much:We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States.
"--South Carolina's Declaration of Secession: "We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States.
But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
> Why do you need this over-complicated system of states, electoral votes, blue vs. red states, etc?The overly complicated bits of the electoral system aren't an accident, they originally existed to provide a way to award more votes to slaveholding states.
Why did they try to leave, again?Hint: Most of the secession declarations include language like this:> But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation...We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States.
Why exactly am I meant to be mollified by the fact that our Constitution was the best thing that a bunch of rich, well-connected, slaveholding elites were able to do with trendiest political philosophies of the 1600s?And, how do you square an appeal to the framers of the Constitution for limited government with the actual decisions of those framers over the first 30 years of the US Government?In establishing a process that allows for the orderly application of the input of the governed, of "clearing the channels" for democracy, the Constitution has been an extraordinarily effective instrument.
Slaveholding definitions
the practice of owning slaves
See also: slavery
allowing slavery; "the slaveholding South"