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Slaveholding

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adj. Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.

n. An owning of one or more slaves.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Holding persons in slavery.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Holding or possessing human beings as slaves: as, slave-holding States.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. allowing slavery

n. the practice of owning slaves

Word Usage

"Although the brutality of her fictional Maryland slaveholding is actually not as bad as the real Carolinas plantation described by Fanny Kemble a little later in time, it seems more shocking to have it witnessed by someone who is a contemporary of ours."

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unfree

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