Associations to the word «Slaveholding»

Wiktionary

SLAVEHOLDING, adjective. Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
SLAVEHOLDING, noun. An owning of one or more slaves.

Dictionary definition

SLAVEHOLDING, noun. The practice of owning slaves.
SLAVEHOLDING, adjective. Allowing slavery; "the slaveholding South".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne