Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slaveholder, or one who favors slavery; in United States history, a member of the pro-slavery party.
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W.L. Garrison, of Baltimore, one of the editors of a publication entitled, "The Genius of Universal Emancipation," is now suffering fine and imprisonment for an alleged libel, at the suit of a slavite; and a law has been passed by the legislature of L.uisiana, suppressing the Orleans journal called "The L.beral."
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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"As long as exclusive colored conventions are held, the white slavite will let them hold them in peace, and strength and shape is given daily to that system of ostracism from social, political and religious influence, which, of all things else, crushes the colored man at the North, and makes him twin brother to the bond-slave of the South."
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