Slave-holding

Slave-holding Christians in the 1700s and 1800s believed that, because God had ordained some be slaves, keeping slaves in chains was actually the loving thing to do.

Jonathan Dudley: Why 'Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin' Doesn't Work Jonathan Dudley 2011

Slave-holding Christians in the 1700s and 1800s believed that, because God had ordained some be slaves, keeping slaves in chains was actually the loving thing to do.

Jonathan Dudley: Why 'Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin' Doesn't Work Jonathan Dudley 2011

This state of things had the effect of unmasking their true opinions and views, and of clearly exhibiting to the public the real object for which a convention was to be called -- that of making this a Slave-holding State ....

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

It is almost incredible to what a pitch of absurdity the Slave-holding party have been brought by the weak habit of concession which has been the vice of the Free States.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

The interests of three-fifths of the Slave-holding

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

Slave-holding States, and with much more generally distributed wealth and opportunities of spending, pay far more than the proportion predicable on mere preponderance in numbers of the expenses of a government supported mainly by a tariff on importations.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

The exacting of “immediate emancipation” as a condition of fellowship in the ministry or communion in the church, and the popular cries of “No fellowship with slave-holders,” and “Slave-holding always and everywhere a sin,” were found practically to conflict with frequent undeniable and stubborn facts.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

Slave-holding was sin and slaveholders were sinners.

William Lloyd Garrison Grimke, Archibald H 1891

Slave-holding was sin and slaveholders were sinners.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

Slave-holding States on English address; intensity of conflict in.

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889