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slaveholding

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12 lettersPart of speech noun, adjectiveSorted adeghillnosvStarts with SEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the practice of owning slaves

Word origin

From slave + holding.

Used in a sentence

  • The slaveholding way of life continued until 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed following the end of the Civil War between the Northern and the Southern states
  • Defenders of Southern slavery employed religious rhetoric to justify the system, selecting biblical passages that appeared to condone the practice of slaveholding and the relation between master and slave.

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