10 sentences with 'slaveholders'
Example sentences and phrases with the word slaveholders and other words derived from it.
• « Indeed, physical, mental and sexual violence was a key strategy among European slaveholders in their effort to assert their dominance and impose their will. »
• « If so, this common background may have made it easier for Jemmy to communicate with the other slaves, allowing them to work together to resist their enslavement even as slaveholders worked to prevent slaves from forging such communities. »
• « While slaveholders in Virginia and elsewhere claimed to be acting in defence of freedom, they held thousands of slaves in captivity, a fact that the British chose to exploit. »
• « White slaveholders took their slaves as mistresses, as most historians agree Jefferson did with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Together they had several children. »
• « Jefferson envisioned an "empire of liberty" for white farmers and relied on the argument for expelling blacks from the United States, even if doing so would completely destroy the wealth of the slaveholders in their human property. »
• « Virginia slaveholders freed some 10,000 slaves. In Massachusetts, the Wheatley family manumitted Phillis in 1773, when he was 21 years old. Other revolutionaries formed societies dedicated to abolishing slavery. »
• « Unlike the American Revolution, which ultimately strengthened the institution of slavery and the powers of American slaveholders, the French Revolution inspired slave rebellions in the Caribbean, including a 1791 slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti). »
• « Moreover, the idea that the French Revolution might inspire a successful slave uprising off the American coast filled Southern whites and slaveholders with horror. »
• « In early 1799, in order to capitalise on trade in the lucrative West Indies and undermine French control of the island, Congress ended the ban on trade with Haiti, a move that recognised Toussaint's leadership, much to the horror of American slaveholders. Toussaint was able to secure an independent black republic in Haiti in 1804. »
• « The theory of nullification, or nullification of unwanted federal laws, provided wealthy slaveholders, who were a minority in the United States, with an argument for resisting the national government if it acted against their interests. »