7 sentences with 'slaveholder'
Example sentences and phrases with the word slaveholder and other words derived from it.
• « William Byrd II of Westover, Virginia, is an example of colonial nobility; a wealthy planter and slaveholder, he is known for founding Richmond and for his diaries documenting the life of a gentleman planter. »
• « At the Virginia House of Burgesses, agitator and slaveholder Patrick Henry presented the Virginia Stamp Act resolutions, which denounced the Stamp Act and the British crown in language so strong that some conservative Virginians accused him of treason. »
• « William H. Crawford, a slaveholder from Georgia, suffered a stroke in 1823 that left him virtually incapacitated, but he still ran for office and was supported by the New York machine led by Van Buren. »
• « In this climate of opinion, voters elected James K. Polk, a white slaveholder from the United States, in 1844. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he promised to annex Texas as a new slave state and take Oregon. »
• « Some slaveholders, such as President Taylor, considered the issue moot because the land acquired from Mexico was too dry for cotton cultivation and, therefore, thought that no slaveholder would want to move there. »
• « Perhaps 500 slaves joined the rebellion, led by Charles Deslondes, a mixed-race slaveholder on a sugar plantation owned by Manuel Andry. »
• « Anderson wrote of how a Mississippi slaveholder stripped a poor slave girl of all clothing, tied her to stakes, and whipped her with a handsaw until he broke her over her naked body. He eventually raped her person and became the father of a child by her. In addition, he always had a coloured lady in the house with him. »