slaveholding
English
Noun
slaveholding (countable and uncountable, plural slaveholdings)
- (uncountable) The institution or practice of owning slaves.
- (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.
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