Definition of "slaveholders" [slaveholders]

• Plural form of slaveholder. (noun)

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• "Human nature works out in slaveholders just as it does in other men, and in American slaveholders just as in English, French, Turkish, Algerine, Roman and Grecian."
• "At the time of the Civil War conservatives were known as slaveholders, secessionists, or Confederate Rebels."
• "The slaveholders are the only class in the nation whose property interest does so; and reciprocally, the sole object of the maintenance of this interest is the maintenance of this dominant power."