slaveholder
noun
an owner of enslaved people in the institution of chattel slavery.
slaveholding
-
a word derived from
slaveholder.
Example Sentences
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Breckinridge captured the slaveholding states except Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, which went to Bell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Mainstream contemporary historians view the Constitution as a compromise between free and slaveholding states.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
But one day, a man brings news that Maram is alive in a village near Gorée, the notorious slaveholding island.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
The last president to grow up in a slaveholding household was Woodrow Wilson, who became the twenty-eighth president in 1913.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
