slaveholding
noun
1. the practice of owning slaves
Similar word(s): slavery
Definition categories: act, pattern, practice
Sentences with slaveholding as a noun:
- "On the other hand, the Mountain South also contained some Lower South counties, thereby permitting internal comparisons between differently sized slaveholdings, between crop specializations, and between agricultural and nonagricultural producers." (Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: "Introduction" 6, 2003)