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形容詞

slaveholding (not comparable)

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

名詞

slaveholding (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 slaveholdings)

1. (uncountable) The institution or practice of owning slaves.
   • 1992, Jonathan Gorman, Understanding history‎^[1]:

     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

   • 2013, Rebecca Fraser, Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America‎^[2]:

     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.

2. (countable) An owning of one or more slaves.
   • 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 6:

     On the other hand, the Mountain South also contained some Lower South counties, thereby permitting internal comparisons between differently sized slaveholdings, between crop specializations, and between agricultural and nonagricultural producers.

関連する語

• nonslaveholder
• nonslaveholding
• slaveholder
• smallholder
• smallholding