Sentences with 'slaveholding'
Example sentences and phrases with the word slaveholding and other words derived from it.
• « The Northern delegates felt that this prohibition balanced political power between slaveholding and non-slaveholding states. »
• « Many Federalists deeply resented the power of the slaveholding Virginians (Jefferson and later Madison), who seemed indifferent to their region. »
• « Many Free-Soil Party members believed in this far-reaching conspiracy of the slaveholding elite to control both foreign affairs and domestic politics for their own ends, a cabal that came to be known as the Slave Power. »
• « The Democrats chose Lewis Cass, and the Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, as Polk had assumed they would. On Election Day, the Democrats split their votes between Van Buren and Cass. With the strength of the Democratic vote diluted, Taylor won. His popularity with the American people served him well, and his slaveholding status helped him win the South. »