slaveholding

• “Although the brutality of her fictional Maryland slaveholding is actually not as bad as the real Carolinas plantation described by Fanny Kemble a little later in time, it seems more shocking to have it witnessed by someone who is a contemporary of ours.”

  April Books 1) Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler

• “For an interesting view of what these household dynamics meant in slaveholding society, see Stephanie McCurry,”

  Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840

• “Time and again, Bolívar compromised with Latin American slaveholding elites in order to secure their support, allowing slavery to continue.”

  Venezuela Analysis

• “What becomes then of the arguments and denunciations of slaveholding, which is despotism on a small scale?”

  Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject

• “Some will, no doubt, attribute this in part to the disparity between the lower classes in the South, and what they choose to term the slaveholding aristocracy.”

  A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery

• “She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some of what is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.”

  Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introd. by Lucius C. Matlack.

• “She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some ofwhat is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.”

  Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb

• “That is, whether or not "slaveholding" as a word is offensive and destructive may, in fact, be irrelevant -- if it is accurate.”

  Archive 2006-03-01

• “Mr.G. Harrison's was built on the line of his brother's farm, that their slaves might go there on the Sabbath and receive instruction, such as slaveholding ministers would give.”

  From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit; the Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph: The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life.

• “Four slaveholding states remained loyal to the Union, a fact that should remind us why describing the war as North against South is misleading and why we should never use “Confederacy” and “the South” as synonyms.”

  The Washington Post: Gary Gallagher: What if Lincoln lost the election?

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