Slaves were thus protected by the slaveholding class, as this Alabama law shows.
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They hoped for slaveholding states to acquire greater power in the U.S. Congress.
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SnipDaddy concludes that the SNPs constitute a genetic signature for slaveholding.
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Non-slaveholding farmers in Virginia think slave labor threatens their livelihoods.
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It was about states'rights, but the states'right that it was about was slaveholding.
From the post-gazette.com
The slaveholding history is acknowledged on the plantation tours, as well.
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Fears of a slave revolt regularly swept major slaveholding communities.
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State sovereignty gave the laws of the slaveholding states extra-jurisdictional effect.
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The nation had 15 free and 15 slaveholding states when California sought statehood in 1850.
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Slavery: the practice of owning slaves
(slaveholder) someone who holds slaves
(Slaveholder) Slavery is a system in which people are the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages. ...