There is, or ought to be, a head to every body; and whether you will or not, the slaveholder and the slave look to you as the best embodiment of the Antislavery idea now in the councils of the nation.
By this bill, if it is to pass, you would allow all over the South the employment by the slaveholder of his slaves to carry the mail, and to receive compensation for the labor of such slaves out of the Federal Treasury.
By the present law not a dollar is ever paid out of the Post-Office Treasury to any slaveholder for the labor of his slave.
In the hunt which followed the massacre, a slaveholder went into the woods, accompanied by a faithful slave, who had been the means of saving his life during the insurrection.
Their effect on the Democracy was nil; and all they were able to accomplish with the Whigs was to make them put forward for the ensuing election a slaveholder from Louisiana, with whom they were successful.
The abolitionist won from the slaveholder the doubtful compliment that "there was not a man in that neighborhood worth a d--n to help him hunt his negro except young Levi Coffin.
Lundy addressed himself almost entirely to the non-slaveholding class, while all of Birney's early efforts were "those of a slaveholder seeking to induce his own class to support the policy of emancipation.
He is careful to state, however, that by slaveholder he does not mean such men as Benton of Missouri and many others throughout the slave States who retain the sentiments on the slavery question of the "immortal Fathers of the Republic.
So they now called for an aged ex-Kentuckian, who was the heaviestslaveholder in the Territory.
I would set theslaveholder running with four millions of slaves for the pricks.
Conventions were held of whites and negroes, in which was proclaimed death to every slaveholder who attempted to carry out the provisions of the infamous enactment.
Appealing to their congregations, they have worked with honied phrase and flattering carresses upon the tender imaginations of women until they have learned to look upon a slaveholder as a sort of moral monstrosity.
If the slaveholder clings to the Union, it is instinct.
No compensation is due to the slaveholder for emancipating his slaves; and emancipation creates no necessity for such compensation, because it is of itself a pecuniary benefit, not only to the slave, but to the master.
I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave.
He was a slaveholder without the ability to hold slaves.
From what I know of the effect of these holidays upon the slave, I believe them to be among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholder in keeping down the spirit of insurrection.
Let it never be forgotten, that no slaveholder or overseer can be convicted of any outrage perpetrated on the person of a slave, however diabolical it may be, on the testimony of colored witnesses, whether bond or free.
It would astonish one, unaccustomed to a slaveholding life, to see with what wonderful ease a slaveholder can find things, of which to make occasion to whip a slave.
Every city slaveholder is anxious to have it known of him, that he feeds his slaves well; and it is due to them to say, that most of them do give their slaves enough to eat.
The former (slaveholder though he was) seemed to possess some regard for honor, some reverence for justice, and some respect for humanity.
Mr. Toombs is modest--but we shall soon see the slaveholder not only sit down with his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument, but shoot them if they attempt to run away!
Gentlemen, Mr. Curtis in 1836 contended for all which Mr. Toombs boasts he shall get--the right of the slaveholder to sit down at the foot of Bunker Hill monument with his slaves!
Thus, by the same stroke, was the career of an ex-slaveholder wrecked and that of an ex-slave made.
It could hardly have been the latter, for, although he was no radical supporter of slavery, he was a slaveholder and a very conservative man.
Nevertheless he is a slaveholder and a defender of the institution as it now exists in Virginia.
The law which permitted a southern slaveholder to retain possession of his slave while travelling through the State, was repealed.
In all the free States, the slaveholder argues and debates the pretensions of his class, and even prosecutes his claim for his slave before the delegate of the Federal Government, with safety and boldness, as he ought.
In reply to Mr. Clay's question, "Can a slaveholdertake his slave property into the territory?
And the burden would then be upon the slaveholder to show that slavery had since been constitutionally established.
This severe and public rebuke commended itself to every man's conscience, and my countryman obtained no sympathy even from the most prejudiced slaveholder on board.
I have been a slaveholder all my life until the day when the ordinance of emancipation was passed in my State.
Slavery is as great a curse to the slaveholder as it is a wrong to the slaves; and yet while we free the rebel slaveholder from the curse, we allow it to continue with our Union-loving men in the Border States.
The heavy and exacting responsibilities of a slaveholder did not rest upon me with a lightness commensurate with my years.
Birney, son of a slaveholderthat had emancipated his slaves, had been mobbed for his abolitionism, and had twice been the presidential candidate of the Liberty party.
Take from him that is needy" is the rule of the slaveholderand the tyrant.
Upon dark battle clouds shone heavenly light, making newly plain God's estimate of slaveholder and of slave; of joys and gains that perish with their use, or await recall; and of souls that never die.
He really pitied her, if a slaveholder ever can pity a slave, and yet he reproached her severely.
He was a slaveholder from choice, and only three years ago bought one hundred and fourteen human beings and kept them as his slaves.
It will never die until the last slaveholder and slave has been gathered to rest.
But is it not wonderful how such words can be spoken here, with the most absolute unconsciousness of their tremendous bearing upon the existence of every slaveholder who hears them?
You are a slaveholder now, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, with all the advantages, and none of the cares and responsibilities of a master.
The slaveholder will be found, therefore, upon a scientific analysis, to hold the same relation to the trader which the freebooter holds to the blackleg.
No one is better aware than the political slaveholder of the crushing effect of slavery on the interests of the non-slaveholding population in the slave States: hence their jealousy of this population as a voting, governing power.
There is a South, and a great South, and would continue to be, were there not a negro or slaveholder sojourning there.
The slaveholder and the man of trade and commerce who feared the tumult, and would have avoided it, will have seen their apprehensions turned into the fulfillment of prophecy.
The baffled slaveholder also found sympathizers in the Grand Jury, who enabled him to indict for riot and assault and battery, Passmore Williamson, William Still, and five other persons.
It was not until the slaveholder was told, "thou art the man," that a healthful agitation was brought about.
As well might theslaveholder say that the slave was fit for no other condition while he consents to occupy that position.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaveholder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
