nonslaveholding
- a word derived from slaveholder.
Example Sentences
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Often condemned as renegades, or “scalawags,” southern white Republicans typically came from the yeoman, or poor, white classes, from the nonslaveholding upland districts, or from business interests anxious to transform the southern economy.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Even in cotton-growing areas, nonslaveholding farmers grew significantly smaller crops of cotton and larger crops of corn than pure business logic would dictate, indicating that safety-first farming still ruled the economic strategies of yeomen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
When representation was so unequal, nonslaveholding communities had minimal legislative power no matter who voted.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
A lifelong Democrat, Johnson proudly represented the nonslaveholding yeomen of the upland South and denounced the region’s elite as antirepublican aristocrats.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
They were men from slave-holding and nonslaveholding States, from the North and the South, from the East and the West.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 3: James Knox Polk by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
