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- noun Plural form of
nonslaveholder .
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Examples
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In strong contrast to the slave-owning class were the nonslaveholders.
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If things had been allowed to take their course, there would have arisen a normal cleavage between former Whigs and Democrats, between the upcountry and the low country, between the slaveholders and the nonslaveholders.
The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Walter Lynwood Fleming 1903
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We repeat, therefore, the substance of our averment, that, at this day, there is not a grain of patriotism in the South, except among the nonslaveholders.
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In that period, there have been eighteen elections for President, the candidates chosen in twelve of them being Southern men and slaveholders, in six of them Northern men and nonslaveholders.
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Passive acquiescence, however, was not the only way nonslaveholders participated in slavery.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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