| 单词 | slaveholding |
| 例句 | Federalism—the division of power between the states and the federal government—was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland was a slave state, it came to be regarded as the border between the free North and slaveholding South. k Several Civil War battles have two names. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Since the Battle of Fort Sumter took place in South Carolina in April 1861, the United States has been a “house divided,” locked in a civil war between the free North and the slaveholding South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In the South, members of the slaveholding class were disturbed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Tensions between slaveholders and abolitionists kept growing, and by mid-January 1861, five slaveholding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia—had seceded from the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Southern slaveholding colonies would agree to form a union only on the condition that the federal government would not be able to interfere with the right to own slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They said it showed how powerful the slaveholding South had become, that part of the United States Army should have been called out to assure the return of one miserable fugitive. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He castigated those who saw the slaveholding South “as the citadel of the Devil.” Eugene D. Genovese, Historian of South, Dies at 82 2012-09-30T00:04:16Z Siete Partidas, a 13th-century legal code that protected enslaved people from mistreatment, was grounds for African-American sanctuary in the face of slaveholding America’s most brutal forms of control: branding, maiming, starvation. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z In ours, he has become a toxic figure for many, as even the Democratic Party he helped found has distanced itself from his legacy of slaveholding, Indian removal and populist demagogy. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It doesn’t slight the enormity of enslavement and slaveholding. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Have we ever been drawn so close into the conflicted mind of our slaveholding philosopher-president? ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “I felt proud of my family’s slaveholding and Confederate past,” Tomlinson writes of his youthful self, “not because I believed in slavery or racism, but because white Texans honored and celebrated that heritage.” “Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Photograph: David James/SMPSP/Dreamworks II Distribution/EPA The film opens towards the end of the war, with the slaveholding Confederate south staggering towards defeat. Lincoln: more jaw-jaw than war-war. And no vampires 2013-01-23T14:26:46Z Although Ms. Parks’s writing moves to a more naturalistic plane here, the colonel and Smith philosophize about slaveholding. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “Hamilton” notes that slaveholding by some of the forefathers is a blot on their legacy. Review | ‘Hamilton’ opens in Washington, and it’s a worthy successor to Broadway 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Professor Jones’s research report notes that at Hopkins’s death, some newspaper articles did refer to his and his family’s history of slaveholding. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Asked if he imagined the university’s name might be challenged, he said that while it was important to fully acknowledge Hopkins’s slaveholding, the institution wasn’t defined by it. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Slavery and its legacy in the United States are not something she normally studies: Her area of expertise is Latin America, its slaveholding past, politics and religion. Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z An 1857 abolitionist work relates the story of a slaveholding doctor who whipped one of his slaves on Sunday. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z Roughly 40 percent of students from the college’s founding until 1861, the researchers determined, came from the slaveholding South, with the figure spiking as high as nearly two-thirds in the early 1850s. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Each time Dana arrives in the past, she finds herself saving the life of Rufus Weylin, her white slaveholding ancestor; she returns to the present only when her own life is at risk. ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The underground railroad is not, in Whitehead’s novel, the secret network of passageways and safe houses used by runaway slaves to reach the free North from their slaveholding states. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Even after the Revolution, New York was the most significant slaveholding state north of the Mason-Dixon line. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Thus, Baumgartner argues, the four fugitives’ arrival in Nacogdoches, and their successful petition for freedom in Monterrey, had a significant effect on relations between the slaveholding United States and what eventually became antislavery Mexico. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z A little past its halfway point this novel takes a surprising, but wholly necessary turn, directing Victor and the reader straight into the darkness that persists in those four slaveholding states. ‘Underground Airlines’ imagines a modern U.S. where slavery is still legal 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Before the Civil War his forebear Senator Alfred Iverson Sr. insisted that a slaveholding Confederacy would outshine “any nation of ancient or modern times.” Antiques: The Beauty That Remains Beyond the Final Curtain 2013-04-25T21:19:43Z At the same time, however, historians here do not try to whitewash Schuyler’s personal connection with slaveholding, including at the mansion, said Heidi L. Hill, the site’s manager. Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The canal was owned by the wealthy slaveholding Stewart family; and Tubman’s father, who worked at a nearby timbering operation, transported materials on the canal. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He chose Harpers Ferry as his target because the armory there was known to be lightly guarded, and because of its location in Virginia, seen as a gateway to the slaveholding South. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The story of how Black people in a slaveholding society affected federal policy by their movements, by their defiance and by their very existence has been told before. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z In addressing the song we have to ask questions about the poet’s bad faith as a slaveholding abolitionist, about the composer’s motives and about our own. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z “It is the first abolitionist and interdenominational church established in a slaveholding county in Kentucky,” he said. A Music Festival Wedding with Two Grooms as the Main Event 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Born in 1833 to a prominent slaveholding family in Kentucky, Harlan freed the people he himself held in bondage only after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which he had opposed. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z “We can have one conversation about what to do with sites named for people connected for slaveholding,” said Professor Sandweiss, who was not a member of the naming committee. Princeton to Name Two Campus Spaces in Honor of Slaves 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Thomas guides us through other cases that wended their way through the circuitous legal system, along with the reactions of the slaveholding class. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The story it relates is an incident-crammed weepy of forbidden love in the slaveholding South, where social status is measured in drops of blood. Theater Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep 2014-05-05T02:00:01Z In an interview, Mr. Daniels said the news of Hopkins’s slaveholding was “obviously extremely painful.” At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z As in other slaveholding jurisdictions, Black people traveling to the District without an enslaver were assumed to be runaway slaves, subject to questioning not only by local officials but by suspicious members of the public. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Soon after the war ended, the U.S. government required former slaveholding states that had fought against the Union to educate both white and Black children. The road to school desegregation 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Politicians from Southern slaveholding states did not like that and pressured Congress to pass a new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 that was much harsher. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z The Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and pledged to fund research into slavery and other projects at a ceremony on Friday. Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z White Americans, especially those who belonged to slaveholding families, accumulated significant wealth from the unpaid work of Africans. For Black Americans, a Long Road to Reparations 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Their story “upends the enduring myth that slaveholding and segregationist Catholic priests and nuns were simply people ‘of their times.’” Black nun who founded first African American religious congregation advances closer to sainthood 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Roman slaves spanned the same range of jobs noted with other slaveholding societies like the Greeks: elite slaves lived much more comfortably than did most free Romans, but most were laborers or domestic servants. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The success of its revolution gave hope to other slave societies and sent shockwaves through slaveholding societies across the Atlantic. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The language will likely include references to Jefferson’s slaveholding. At U.Va., an Alumnus Attacked Diversity Programs. Now He Is on the Board. 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z It is named after the two slaveholding, tobacco-farming cousins, John and Philip Alexander, who sold the original 60 acres of land to the municipality more than 100 years before our Civil War. Opinion | Renaming streets for people won’t solve the problem 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Indeed, scholars in recent years have been reassessing Grant’s complicated legacy of battlefield cruelty and personal slaveholding, with some now arguing for him to be considered America’s first civil rights president. Ulysses S. Grant, president and general, gets a day in Ohio 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Instead, these states had the crackling entrepreneurial energy that Alexis de Tocqueville, floating down the Ohio in Jacksonian America, saw to his right, in Ohio, but not to his left, in slaveholding Kentucky. Opinion | In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Another six honor possible enslavers — people whose slaveholding status is in dispute. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? It was considered a “sacred pledge” by many antislavery Northerners determined to protect the West as “free soil” for “free labor,” but pro-slavery Southerners became equally determined to incorporate new territories as slaveholding states. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Capitulation would have either preserved slavery in the United States for decades, or created a new and aggressive slaveholding empire in the Americas. Review | In Jon Meacham’s biography, Lincoln is a guiding light for our times 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z For starters, the show takes place much later in American history, jumping from the slaveholding times of the 1790s to the transitional period of the 1910s. Check out Interview with the Vampire’s newest trailer 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln was trying desperately to hold the country together as slaveholding states threatened to secede, and in 1938 President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned against rising fascism. Biden’s stark warning: The U.S. is threatened by its own citizens 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z A variety of academic, archival and biographical sources were used to determine the slaveholding status of each figure who reached adulthood before the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? Five of those seven were from slave states and slaveholding families. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z "In general, the slaveholding states rejected science and technology," Kent wrote to Salon. Abraham Lincoln, master inventor: The true story of the only president to ever patent an invention 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Defending their honor and ensuring that they received proper respect became preoccupations of White people in the slaveholding South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z To oppose the admission of slaveholding states to the federal union. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The vote, held in November, was one of the biggest financial commitments to reparations in the Episcopal Church, which supported slaveholding from the institution’s arrival on Virginia’s shores through the Civil War. Va. Episcopal Diocese to spend $10 million for reparations. But how? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z He is a Black minister in the predominately white Southern Baptist Convention, which was founded in 1845 in support of slaveholding missionaries. Church apologies: Top leaders say sorry for historical sins 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z His opponent, Stephen A. Douglas, wanted to stick with the status quo, each state choosing its slaveholding status. On its 100th birthday, the Lincoln Memorial still beckons a nation divided Many slaveholding expansionists believed that the events of the Haitian Revolution could repeat themselves in Cuba, leading to the overthrow of slavery on the island and the creation of an independent Black republic. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Representatives from large slaveholding states believed that enslaved people should be counted as part of their total population. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The “slave power” thesis was the belief that a slaveholding oligarchy ran the United States for its own benefit. Opinion | It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Long after the former slaveholding families considered the debt settled, Haiti would still be paying — only now to Crédit Industriel. How a French Bank Captured Haiti 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z When the Constitution was written, slaveholding states wielded outsize power. Opinion | On representation and reproductive rights, there are no easy answers 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z A second candidate, John C. Calhoun from South Carolina, had served as secretary of war and represented the slaveholding South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Following the abolition of slavery and the end of Reconstruction, the former slaveholding states in the South took a number of steps to prevent formerly enslaved people and their children from voting. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Together, this gave the slaveholding oligarchs of the South a virtual lock on much of the federal government, including the Supreme Court. Opinion | It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z If slavery were legal in all the territories, they reasoned, slaveholding settlers would gain early control and free-soil opponents would stand no chance. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Others on the right have used the sanctification of Dr. King as a way to bolster the reputations of the Founders, at a time when attention to their slaveholding was tarnishing their cultural prestige. Ted Cruz Invokes Dr. King, and Scholars See a Familiar Distortion 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The sisters had been born into a prosperous slaveholding family in South Carolina. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Slavery remained a big and booming business, driven by demand for tobacco, rice, indigo and increasingly cotton, which was already on its path to dominance as the principal cash crop of the slaveholding South. Opinion | We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The slaveholding South may not have been as politically unified as charged, but the institutions of American democracy were slanted toward slaveholders, who really did capture the state for their own ends. Opinion | It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Foreign visitors to the colonial South frequently remarked that the powerful experience of personal mastery lent special force to the desire for independence in the slaveholding elite. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z I congratulate The Post and its team of writers and researchers who traced the history of slaveholding among members of Congress. Opinion | It’s crucial to document enslavers in Congress 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The nomination of Johnson, a Democrat and a slaveholding southerner, was a pragmatic decision made by concerned Republicans. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Republican lieutenant governor this year pressured a museum to cancel a panel to discuss a revisionist book — “Forget the Alamo” — examining its slaveholding combatants. In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z To this day, there are still some textbooks in America that emphasize how slaveholding white people generously provided not only housing, food and clothing but also medical care for their charges. Is the new GOP "Southern Strategy" civil war & bloodshed...and a return to "Leave It To Beaver"? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Even as they recognized the potential uses of black allies, British leaders did not want to alienate slaveholding neutrals or Loyalists, much less to start a race war. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In December 1848, in Macon, Ga., the couple planned to cross hundreds of miles of hostile, slaveholding country to reach the safety of Philadelphia. Smithsonian African American museum launches online interactive access 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Seven of the first eleven presidents were enslavers, and more than half of the Supreme Court justices who served on the court from its inception to the Civil War came from slaveholding states. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They were integral to turning the tide of battle and finally defeating Lee's forces and the Confederate slaveholding oligarchy. Robert E. Lee and the Trumpists: Why a Confederate "hero" is still important 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Miranda has been criticized for whitewashing the founding fathers’ slaveholding history. Live theater is an obstacle course, but 'Hamilton' at the Pantages is worth it 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Born to a privileged, slaveholding family, Sarah developed an early hatred of slavery, and when she reached adulthood, she became a Quaker and moved to Philadelphia to escape slavery’s influence. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He cited a lack of respect for the Black church, including a decision to retain the names of its slaveholding founders on some seminary buildings. Racial tensions simmer as Southern Baptists hold key meeting 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The Confederate Constitution declared that the new nation existed to defend and perpetuate racial slavery, and the leadership of the slaveholding class. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Hopkins family tried to extricate themselves from slaveholding, he wrote, but it was Black families who challenged slavery directly. Johns Hopkins enslaved people. Or did he? Some scholars question the university’s recent claims. 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Historians largely agree that the compromise gave slaveholding states more political power. State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Most of the new settlers were slaveholding southerners, for the fertile plains of eastern Texas were ideal for cultivating cotton. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The instruction has gone out lately to all of Colonial Williamsburg’s dozens of actor-interpreters that the city’s slaveholding past is to figure in every tour and talk. Some of the most progressive and insightful theater in America is happening in Colonial Williamsburg — really 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Panelists were asked what they tell those who oppose reparations on the grounds that they’re not guilty of slaveholding or racism and shouldn’t be asked to pay for those crimes. Panel says faith community must lead slavery reparations 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z In recent years, Maryland, a slaveholding border state that remained in the Union during the Civil War, has focused on confronting lynchings in the state, an indelible and deeply painful part of American history. Maryland governor grants posthumous pardons for 34 Black lynching victims 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z These events have accelerated a moral and racial reckoning for a school founded just before the Civil War to serve as an academic force for a slaveholding society devoted to White supremacy. ‘We are not leaving’: Sewanee’s first Black leader helps propel a racial reckoning at university 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z War exposed the fissures in slaveholding society and sparked explosive protests. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It was back in early 2020 that a San Francisco Unified School District committee convened, tasked with considering whether to change school names allegedly associated with slaveholding, colonization or oppression. Amid 'huge tension,' San Francisco set to formally suspend renaming of public schools 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z At the time, the Catholic Church did not view slaveholding as immoral, according to the Rev. Thomas R. Murphy, a historian at Seattle University. Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Also the third president, Thomas Jefferson — who articulated the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the first place — failed to pass muster, because of his slaveholding. Opinion | Confederate names are coming down, but San Francisco is now taking on … Abe Lincoln? 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education voted to change the names of 42 schools because of alleged associations with slaveholding, colonization or oppression. Lincoln, Washington, Feinstein, Lowell — San Francisco will rename 42 schools 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z It required slaveholding tribes to relinquish slavery and accept their former slaves as tribal members. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Thomas Jefferson also held slaves, and yet included in his original draft of the Declaration a strong condemnation of slavery, which was removed at the insistence of certain slaveholding delegates,” it says. Analysis | Trump’s ‘patriotic education’ report excuses Founding Fathers for owning slaves and likens progressives to Mussolini 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z A month later, the Rev. Arturo Sosa, the superior general of the order, responded, describing Jesuit slaveholding as “a sin against God and a betrayal of the human dignity of your ancestors.” Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Committee members flagged for removal the names of prominent and historic figures who had alleged ties with slaveholding, colonization or oppression. Cancel Abraham Lincoln? San Francisco grapples with the president's legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z A growing number also are willing to nix slaveholding founders of the nation. ‘Creating blind spots’: Sculptor says statue removal advocates need reality check 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Instead he attacked the fabric of slaveholding society by leading his army across Georgia in its famous March to the Sea. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He periodically converses with white people who oppose reparations on the grounds that they are not personally guilty of slaveholding or racism, and should not be asked to pay for those wrongs. More US churches are committing to racism-linked reparations 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z “Our shameful history of Jesuit slaveholding in the United States has been taken off the dusty shelf, and it can never be put back.” Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z In 1929, an admiring grandniece published a set of reminiscences that erased her uncle’s role in slaveholding. Opinion | The founder of Johns Hopkins owned enslaved people. Our university must face a reckoning. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “The significance of his role as the first Black Archbishop, now Cardinal, of Washington D.C., which was the center of power of the U.S. church’s slaveholding elite, also cannot be overstated,” Dr. Williams said. Pope Francis Appoints First African-American Cardinal 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Eccentric Quaker Benjamin Lay scolded Pennsylvania Friends for the sin of slaveholding in the 1740s. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The school, whose cadets fought and died for the slaveholding South during the Civil War, has long venerated its Confederate past. VMI superintendent resigns after Black cadets describe relentless racism 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “But I know there will be no friendship with the slaveholding man until he is soundly beaten, holds himself accountable and asks for forgiveness. Then we can discuss friendship.” John Brown was right, or: What Harpers Ferry means to me 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Going forward, my work will involve investigating our founder’s relationship to slaveholding and, as much as possible, understanding the lives of those he held enslaved. Opinion | The founder of Johns Hopkins owned enslaved people. Our university must face a reckoning. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z His action followed a Washington Post story detailing a lynching threat, Klan reminiscences and Confederacy veneration at the Lexington school, whose cadets fought and died for the slaveholding South during the Civil War. Northam calls for VMI investigation after Black cadets describe relentless racism 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The average slaveholding increased in the same period, so slaves were concentrating in fewer hands as their prices increased. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass fought for an “invincible abhorrence of the whole system of slaveholding” to be “fixed in the soul of the nation.” Biden and Trump Say They’re Fighting for America’s ‘Soul.’ What Does That Mean? 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Interesting points, but a greater value of the piece is its effective framing of broader societal arguments about how modern Americans view slaveholding founders. Washington is named for a president who owned slaves. Should it be? 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Although Maryland was a slaveholding border state with many Confederate sympathizers, Raskin said the current song “does not reflect the spirit and character of Maryland.” Preakness will not play Maryland’s state song, a Civil War-era ballad that celebrates the Confederacy 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a reconsideration of buildings, military installations and monuments named after soldiers who fought for the slaveholding Confederacy. U.S. congressman John Lewis to lie in state in Capitol Rotunda 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Masters could thus increase their slaveholdings by impregnating female slaves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Ten Army bases that honor Confederate generals who fought to defend the slaveholding South have been the focus of a growing movement for change. Pentagon Sidesteps Trump to Ban the Confederate Flag 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The bold raid by Union soldiers along the Combahee River in South Carolina in 1863 was intended to punish slaveholding plantations and recruit for the Union’s Black regiments. Opinion | Putting Heroes, and Traitors, Where They Belong 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Although California was technically a free state, authorities turned a blind eye to slaveholding settlers in their midst. Op-Ed: A monument to California's Black history may soon be destroyed 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z He argued at the time that the artifact was valuable evidence that Montgomery was a slaveholding county, and that even though Maryland did not secede, there were many residents who sympathized with the Confederate cause. A Confederate statue is toppled in rural Maryland, then quietly stored away 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Rupture finally came in 1845, when the Methodist and Baptist denominations both split over northern efforts to brand slaveholding as an unacceptable sin for ministers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His speech also targeted demonstrators who have in recent weeks tried to tear down monuments of slaveholding Americans, many of them former leaders of the Confederacy. In Arizona, Trump Boasts About His Wall and Repeats Unfounded Predictions of Voter Fraud 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Wealth in the slaveholding South was measured on the auction block, not just in crops and land. Opinion | Dump the statues and come to terms with racism 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Texas was the last state of the Confederacy - the slaveholding southern states that seceded, triggering the Civil War - to receive the proclamation, on 19 June 1865, months after the end of the war. Trump to restart rallies on key slavery date 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z For many, symbols of the Confederacy - the slaveholding southern states that seceded, prompting the 1861-65 American Civil War - evoke a racist past. Trump rejects calls to drop Confederate base names 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Voting starkly revealed the consequences of the Constitution’s three-fifths compromise, which inflated the power of slaveholding states in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A similar motive of simple freedom inspired the literate preacher Nat Turner to gather a band of like-minded enslaved people and fight against the dominant slaveholding structure in Southampton county, Virginia, in 1831. 'Riots', 'mobs', 'chaos': the establishment always frames change as dangerous | Keisha N Blain and Tom Zoellner 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z In downtown Charleston, the slaveholding salt industrialist families, including Dickinson and Shrewsbury, are used for street names. Slavery documents from Southern saltmakers shed light on dark history 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But the GOP in November lost full control of the General Assembly, giving Democrats an opportunity to target the statues that critics say distastefully glorify Virginia’s history as a slaveholding state. Virginia lawmakers approve Confederate statue removal bills 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z But there is nothing to commemorate the city’s slaveholding origins. Op-Ed: California's forgotten slave history 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z A few slaveholding spokesmen defended the resulting inequality among whites, but racial privileges gave all white men a form of equal superiority that usually masked class differences. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Recall that in the eighteenth century, it was a slaveholding planter from Virginia who secured American independence. False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The film may fuel interest in a woman many want on the $20 bill in place of a slaveholding president, Andrew Jackson. A new Harriet Tubman movie also stars the places where the Underground Railroad leader made history 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Because slavery concentrated ruling power in the slaveholding class, “All the antient popular governments, were for this reason aristocracies.” When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The vast majority of the student body — numbering between 100 and 150 people each year — hailed from wealthy, Southern slaveholding families. Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students beat and raped enslaved servants, historians say 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Mason was born in a slaveholding state to a slaveholding family, and he saw no easy way out of the institution. Opinion | George Mason was a conflicted slave owner 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z So far, okay — but the story focused heavily on his family’s slaveholding history. A newspaper reported that a man’s ancestors were slaveholders. He’s suing for defamation. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Staff don’t shy away from Mason’s slaveholding legacy, said Scott Stroh, the executive director. GMU to erect memorial honoring more than 100 people enslaved by George Mason 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The profitability of slaveholding and landholding to the owner biased the reinvestment of profits back toward the purchase of more slaves and choice lands, bidding up prices. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The experience of African Americans, particularly under slavery, often was ignored at the expense of other narratives, including ones that painted a more sympathetic portrait of slaveholding secessionists. ‘The third rail in early-childhood education’: When are children old enough to learn about slavery? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In the early decades of the American republic, the Catholic Church established its primary foothold in the South, in communities where slaveholding was considered a mark of wealth and prestige for parishioners, clergy and nuns. The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z By referring to his family’s slaveholding past in a story about Tayloe’s fight to preserve the monuments, Tayloe’s lawyers argued, the C-Ville Weekly and Schmidt implied their client was a racist. A newspaper reported that a man’s ancestors were slaveholders. He’s suing for defamation. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The public is just now learning about nuns’ slaveholding practices because of a recently heightened national focus on race, Mannard said. An elite D.C. girls’ school thought its founding nuns taught slaves to read. Instead, they sold them off for as much as they could. 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In the meantime, he said his ancestors’ slaveholding and participation in the Confederacy is “a part of my family history I will share on the campaign trail”. Beto O'Rourke's ancestors were slaveholders, records reveal 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Johnson recognized new Southern state governments led by former slaveholding whites. Review | A national debate over politics, principles and impeachment — in 1868 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z It was not unusual for American-born priests and nuns to grow up in slaveholding families, and many orders relied on slave labor, historians say. The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z If not unprecedented, it’s certainly unusual to contend the revelation of details about slaveholding ancestors constitutes defamation, law professors said. A newspaper reported that a man’s ancestors were slaveholders. He’s suing for defamation. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Maryland was a slaveholding border state that remained in the Union during the Civil War, though many people in power were Confederate sympathizers. ‘This has no place here’: New speaker of Md. House calls for removal of Confederate plaque 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z He also pointed to students at Georgetown University who have recently advocated for the school to more deeply address its history as a slaveholding institution, and said he hopes Gregory will further that effort. Washington’s black Catholic community looks to Archbishop Gregory for new leadership 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Some Christian institutions, notably Georgetown University in the District, are engaged in a reckoning about what it means that their past was rooted in slaveholding. The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z He has had a number of conversations about Catholic slaveholding. The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Today, many view Lee as a symbol of racism and America’s slaveholding history. AP Explains: Trump revives debate about Robert E. Lee 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Harvard Law School abandoned an 80-year-old shield based on the crest of a slaveholding family that helped endow the institution. Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? The Descendants, not Harvard, a Lawsuit Says 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The monument in the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus was a landmark, honoring former students who fought for the slaveholding Confederacy. USC’s new president Carol Folt removed Confederate statue, faced N. Carolina backlash 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Proslavery propaganda from the 19th century depicted white women as the “gentler” face of slaveholding — as benevolent souls whose acts of kindness softened the system and as domestic creatures content to submit to male authority. Review | White women’s long-overlooked complicity in the brutality of slaveholding 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z They have published an online report about the convent’s slaveholding — an article by the school’s archivist and historian also appeared in The U.S. The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In 2003, the university pulled its mascot, Colonel Reb, an older white man dressed as an antebellum-era planter, off the sidelines of athletic events, concerned about his connections to the school’s slaveholding past. Mississippi basketball players kneel in protest during anthem as Confederate groups rally in Oxford 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, dramatically improving cotton’s profitability and entrenching a slaveholding economy. Opinion | Capitalism besieged 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The cemetery monuments are typically simple and solemn, serving more to acknowledge the deceased than to celebrate the slaveholding nation they defended. Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Brazil, which has more people of African descent than most African nations, was the largest slaveholding society in the Americas. Sexism, racism drive more black women to run for office in both Brazil and US 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z None of the official histories described the extent of the sisters’ slaveholding or detailed the nuns’ profits from the sale of humans. The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z ‘The disregard, on the part of the states of the North, for the rights of the Southern or slaveholding states’ was the answer. 7 things the United Daughters of the Confederacy might not want you to know about them 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Even the odious institution of slavery was preserved by compromise in the Constitution, which counted a slave as three-fifths of a person, thus giving slaveholding states extra clout and winning their votes for ratification. Scorched-earth politics at peril to democracy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had drawn a virtual line across the country separating the free North from the slaveholding South. Opinion | The Violence at the Heart of Our Politics 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The West African nation of Mauritania is known for its poets, for its reserves of gold - and for its failure to take meaningful action to curtail the pervasive practice of modern slaveholding. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z The deportees in question are black Mauritanians, who are ethnically distinct, and speak a different language from the majority Arab and Berber tribes that form the country’s majority and its slaveholding merchant class. Opinion | ICE is sending Mauritanians back to modern-day slavery 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z In many slaveholding Southern states, it was once illegal to teach enslaved people to read, and many states administered literacy tests to bar illiterate men — black or white — from the polls. Do children have a right to literacy? Attorneys are testing that question. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The insurrection he led in Southampton County, Va., in 1831, involved the murders of 55 white men, women and children and sent shock waves throughout the slaveholding southern states. ‘GREAT EXCITEMENT. Runaway Slaves’: The slave uprising that Maryland seems to want to forget 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Brazil, after all, was the largest slaveholding country in the world, and the last in the Americas to outlaw slavery. He’s One of Brazil’s Greatest Writers. Why Isn’t Machado de Assis More Widely Read? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The society’s slaveholding history is linked to its schools in Missouri and Louisiana, she said. Group hopes for understanding as it explores ties to slavery 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z “The disregard, on the part of the states of the North, for the rights of the Southern or slaveholding states” was the answer. Opinion | The Confederacy’s ‘Living Monuments’ 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Stuart was a slaveholding Confederate general who was mortally wounded in an 1864 battle. Public schools grappling with Confederate names, images 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Armed for war, these incendiary racists employ several of the same aggressive tactics that the slaveholding leaders of the Confederate rebellion once relied on to achieve secession. Charlottesville brings out the Confederate legacy 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z He admitted that slaveholding rendered his own class depraved “despots,” and destroyed the “amor patriae” of their bondsmen. 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z He saw the slaveholding aristocracy that drove the South into secession as an indefensible criminal regime, rooted in treason and an immoral economy where human beings were “bought and sold like cattle.” The Confederate mystique: White America’s toxic romance with a criminal regime 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Democrats worry about Mr. Trump’s attempt to shift the debate to Confederate monuments and a slippery slope argument toward tearing down memorials to slaveholding founding fathers. Charlottesville and Trump’s Response Reshape Virginia Gubernatorial Race 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Yes, there are reasonable Americans who fear that slaveholding Founding Fathers will be the next target. Opinion | The nation can only weep 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z As for Lamar Hall, its plaque will mention Lamar’s slaveholding, adding that “his prominence obscured the active role he played in dismantling Reconstruction in Mississippi to the detriment of the state’s African-American citizens.” Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The slave power, argued northerners, consisted of the southern slaveholding political class; they were obsessively bent on control of every level of government and every institution – presidency, courts, and Congress. 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Another series in development at HBO will ask us to envision an equally horrid new world: the slaveholding Confederacy continuing to the present day. Remembering how world came chillingly close to a Nazi-controlled Britain 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Stuart, who was mortally wounded in an 1864 battle, was a slaveholding Confederate general. School board votes to drop high school’s Confederate name 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Lincoln’s decision to emancipate the slaves came after a long, arduous struggle with the South’s slaveholding elite and his own evolving beliefs. 3 new history books, perfect for hard times 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Kaplan is at his best in describing anti-slavery in New England and Southern slaveholding moderates as those “who opposed slavery in principle but happily profited from it.” Opinion | Was Abraham Lincoln an incorrigible racist? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The Proclamation laid the foundation for the ongoing transformation of the United States from a slaveholding nation into an interracial democracy. 25 Moments That Changed America 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Helper tried to mobilize these poor and humble white people against this small slaveholding aristocracy. Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Moore said that delegates recognized “a special responsibility to be aware of racial injustice because the S.B.C. was founded on the basis of a defense of slaveholding.” In Quick Reversal, Southern Baptists Denounce White Nationalists 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Kentucky was officially neutral during the Civil War, but the Confederate cause attracted significant support from the state’s many slaveholding residents. Confederate Monument, Shunned by One Kentucky City, Is Welcomed in Another 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z He was born just outside the city into a French-speaking family of slaveholding aristocrats and ran for mayor of New Orleans in 1858. New Orleans Removes Beauregard Statue, and Subdued Crowds Look On 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The first shot was fired by forces of the secessionist, slaveholding states on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, on 12 April 1861. Donald Trump voices confusion over US history: 'Why was there a civil war?' 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Helper pierced the heart of slaveholding society in The Impending Crisis of the South. Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Jackson, a wealthy slaveholding plantation owner known for his bombast, styled himself as a man of the people, beating the dominant political dynasty of his day to win the presidency. Jackson and Trump: How Two Populist Presidents Compare 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z He had been an ineffective President, faced with an obstructionist Congress and constrained by the conviction that he answered not only to the North but to the slaveholding South. Watching Andrew Jackson’s Inauguration 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Its ruling elites had come from the merchant and slaveholding classes. How America harnessed its resources to forge a new kind of empire 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z He knew Thanksgiving was a Trojan horse; cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie would get the northerners through the front door, and they’d soon be spreading their “claptrap” throughout the slaveholding south. Thanksgiving began to spread liberal values. Let's keep that going | James Nevius 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Among them: to guard against voters without access to enough information being able to tip the totals; and to mollify slaveholding states. Editorials from around Ohio 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z For 32 of the Constitution’s first 36 years, a white slaveholding Virginian occupied the presidency. The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z They are often imbued, to varying degrees, with nostalgia for the “lost cause” of the slaveholding Confederacy. A lynching in Georgia: the living memorial to America’s history of racist violence 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The United States was a pioneering democracy, but its democracy was shaped by the demands of a slaveholding elite that had immense—and often decisive—authority over its government. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But the county’s slaveholding citizens were still afraid. “The Birth of a Nation” Isn’t Worth Defending 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z After the American Revolution, the fear of disarmament was widespread, particularly among southern whites who feared they would be left vulnerable in a slaveholding south. Whether the Second Amendment Applies to All Citizens Is Not a New Question 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z You may have learned more in the past week about Francis Scott Key’s slaveholding and the battle at Fort McHenry than you would have otherwise. Colin Kaepernick reminds us that dissent is a form of patriotism too 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Georgetown University is taking what historians say are unprecedented steps to atone for past slaveholding. Georgetown University, Donald Trump, SpaceX: Your Thursday Evening Briefing 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z In their minds, this was a powerful state, continental in scope and hemispheric in influence, which put the preservation of slaveholding property at the center of U.S. politics and U.S. foreign policy. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z This device—Turner as itinerant sermonizer—allows Parker to take viewers on a circuit of slaveholding Virginia and thereby witness many varieties of visceral horror. “The Birth of a Nation” Isn’t Worth Defending 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “As we join the Georgetown community we must understand that part of our history is this history of slaveholding and the slave trade,” said working group chair David Collins. Georgetown to Give Slave Descendants Legacy Admissions Edge 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Georgetown University recently and frankly acknowledged its slaveholding past. When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z A young black man named Victor works as a bounty hunter for the US Marshals Service, and he’s tasked with tracking down a runaway from the "Hard Four" slaveholding states. New adventures: what to read in science fiction and fantasy this month 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z I think the most powerful slaveholding politicians — Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, and so on — believed this most of all. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z For example, he supported abolition, but married into a slaveholding family and may even have bartered for slaves on behalf of his in-laws. ‘Hamilton Slept Here’ as Bethlehem tourism catch phrase? 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Although Bynum points out that Newt’s part of Mississippi “was not a major slaveholding region,” the movie reduced slavery to an ancillary ephemerality and purges it of too much of its barbarism. White Savior, Rape and Romance? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Witnesses testified to a disturbing but essential truth in these cases: that the slaveholding priests were blind and deaf to her claim, thus trapping Queen and three generations of her descendants. When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Clay belonged to a slaveholding family, but he freed his slaves and published an antislavery newspaper. Your Tuesday Briefing 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note. Your Wednesday Evening Briefing: Donald Trump, Elizabeth II, Harriet Tubman 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Happy to see Jackson, a thoroughly unpleasant character, not only for his slaveholding, but for his enthusiastic slaughter and displacement of Native Americans, fall off the $20. Move Over, Andrew Jackson. Harriet Tubman Is Coming to the $20 Bill. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Carved from the slaveholding states of Maryland and Virginia, Washington coexisted with the slave trade until 1850. How One Elderly Woman Took on Jim Crow in Washington—And Won 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Queen’s case against Georgetown’s slaveholding president was a pivotal moment in the perpetuation of slavery. When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z One Ali biographer says the boxer’s ancestors may have been owned by Clay’s slaveholding relative Henry Clay, who served as speaker of the house, senator and secretary of state, but it has never been proved. Your Tuesday Briefing 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Eleven slaveholding states chose to secede from the union rather than face an uncertain future under Republican rule. Why the United States Was Late to End Slavery 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The Royall family, whose estate can still be visited today, was the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts. Harvard Law School reviews use of crest with symbol of slavery 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z And Harvard Law School’s official seal is under scrutiny because it includes elements drawn from a slaveholding family’s crest. Your Wednesday Briefing 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z A name is just that – and a Taser on its face is no more racist than the city or state of Washington are, simply for being named after our slaveholding first president. Where did the word 'Taser' come from? A century-old racist science fiction novel | Jamiles Lartey 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z We never idolize Jefferson’s slaveholding at my school, and I doubt the case is any different at Princeton with Wilson’s ideas on segregation. What our monuments stand for 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Constitution in 1787 ensured that the slaveholding interest exercised influence in national tribunals disproportionate to its population. Why the United States Was Late to End Slavery 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Harvard Law School officials are reviewing the use of the school’s seal, which displays part of the crest of a slaveholding family. Harvard Law School reviews use of crest with symbol of slavery 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Abolitionists had been trying for decades to persuade Congress to abolish slavery in D.C., but Congress – dominated by slaveholding interests – would not move. The Transformation of African-American Life in 19th Century Washington 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The 1803 Louisiana Purchase—by which the U.S. acquired more slaveholding territory in the name of national expansion—set off the dynamic that led to the Civil War. How the South Won the Civil War 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z For example, he said, when Quakers and Baptists in Newport began turning against slavery, some slave owners in those churches switched to the Episcopal Church, where they were welcomed and their slaveholding was not challenged. Rhode Island Church Taking Unusual Step to Illuminate Its Slavery Role 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s why white Southerners long preferred Lost Cause mythology to slaveholding realities. The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z It featured a blue St Andrew’s Cross on a red field, with a white star for each of the slaveholding states. South Carolina's Confederate flag comes down as history of hate meets modernity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z His last name, one of the most storied in South Carolina politics, is that of a pair of white slaveholding cousins who signed the United States Constitution. Clementa Pinckney Felt Called to Spiritual and Political Service 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Whites who lived on plantations were devastated and spooked, not just in Charleston, but in all the slaveholding states. Charleston Shooting Shows All Americans Have Some Soul-Searching to Do 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “It was obvious that the pageant was an unapologetic celebration of the slaveholding South,” Iles said. African-Americans performers help rewrite Natchez’s story 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z And in 1842 he married a woman from a prominent Kentucky slaveholding family. Lincoln’s Civil War brilliance: The real story of the political savvy that helped end slavery 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z But for many people in South Carolina – and across these United States – the most important word in its description is “slaveholding”. South Carolina's Confederate flag comes down as history of hate meets modernity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z This denomination, which has grown to nearly 16 million members, was founded in a historical break from Northern Baptists in 1845 – over a question of slaveholding. Evangelicals’ racist “purity” culture: What’s really behind Huckabee’s Beyoncé slur 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z In doing so, the court challenged Congress to come up with a replacement plan to protect minority voters where discrimination persists rather than target former slaveholding southern states. Bill offered in U.S. Congress to modernize Voting Rights Act 2014-01-16T23:45:54Z Professor Morgan later became intrigued by colonial Virginia, a slaveholding society that produced some of America’s most sophisticated theoreticians of human freedom. Edmund S. Morgan, Historian Who Shed Light on Puritans, Dies at 97 2013-07-09T05:25:03Z Should, indeed, Despotism and Democracy meet as the two slaveholding powers of the world, the result can hardly be predicted. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It is clear that many of the slaveholding type of Christians would want to get rid of the Negro members since they could no longer determine their faith and how it should be exercised. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The hypocrites of the North tell us that slaveholding is sinful. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z I do not believe in a slaveholding God! The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z This open vindication of the rightfulness of slaveholding is by no means confined to persons residing at the South. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z The inconsistencies of slaveholding professors of religion cry to Heaven. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z These places in Maryland, however, were not strictly of the slaveholding attitude and so were parts of Virginia. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The Methodist Church South is expunging from the discipline everything inimical to the peculiar institution, whilst I observe that the Church North is adding to her testimony and deliverances against the sin of slaveholding. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z The minister to Great Britain was James Buchanan, who was afterward President of the United States, a northern man with strong southern sympathies and in complete subservience to the slaveholding interests of the south. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z It remains for us to consider the special cases in which slaveholding is thought by many to be right. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z He wished to let his record speak for him, and to see whether the commotion in the slaveholding states would increase or subside. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Josiah Bishop, of course, could not long remain as the pastor of a mixed church in the slaveholding colony of Virginia. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z Only the landowning and slaveholding aristocracy owed a nominal allegiance to the two parties whose active members were the officeholders or those who hoped to become officeholders. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z History shows no instance where such men ever reproached themselves for slaveholding, and while it was profitable put it aside because it is undemocratic. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z All slaveholding is unnecessary, and none is involuntary on the part of the owner. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z From the foregoing facts, however, it is clear that no law of Nature prevented Illinois from becoming a slaveholding state, but only the fiercest kind of political fighting and internal resistance. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Literature especially adapted to this end prepared by churchmen safeguarding the interests of the slaveholding South was preferably used. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z On 'his gray, discrowned head' the entire fury of slaveholding arrogance and wrath was expended. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z The relation which now exists between the two races in the slaveholding States has existed for two centuries. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z "Yes!—it cannot be denied—the slaveholding lords of the South prescribed, as a condition of their assent to the Constitution, three special provisions to secure the perpetuity of their dominion over their slaves." Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z Hunter, of Virginia, considered it utterly hopeless to expect that either Kansas or Nebraska would ever be a slaveholding state. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z They were eminently men of one business, unconnected with any political party, though often strongly suspected by the jealousies so rife in slaveholding communities. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The original paper was, however, adopted in preference, and received the signatures of forty-eight of the members of Congress from the slaveholding States. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z It is madness to suppose that the slaveholding States would quietly submit to be sacrificed. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Nor is slaveholding ever made right by the fact that the slaves will not consent to be emancipated; for no man can rightfully consent to his own degradation. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z Nearly all of the emancipationists, during the decade following the adoption of the Compromise, were in the slaveholding states, since the evil had its seat there. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Every slaveholding member of their society was required to liberate his bondmen within twelve months. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The fear of servile insurrections has always aroused the worst passions of slaveholding countries. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z It is that by the Renascence the literature of slaveholding Greece and Rome suddenly acquired and long held commanding influence upon almost every educator of the public in the enlightened world. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z We can neither rightfully hold slaves nor support others in slaveholding, because, as we have seen, slaveholding is under all circumstances wrong. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z Thomas Jefferson favored gradual emancipation in Virginia, to be coupled with deportation of the emancipated blacks, because he feared trouble if the two races were placed upon an equality in the then slaveholding states. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The masters had long since learned that coincidence of religious belief on the part of the slave and the owner was a necessity in the economy of the slaveholding States. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z Many of our free and of our slaveholding States were peopled at about the same time. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z From its first historical appearance, among the Carthaginians, from whom the Romans seem to have derived it, this rude and wholesale method of farming has rested on slaveholding. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Neither the Philadelphia Convention that framed the Constitution, nor the State Conventions that adopted it, had power to make wrong in the slightest degree right, or alter at all the moral character of slaveholding. Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z With this in mind, Blair — a member of a slaveholding Maryland family — suggested one pragmatic “modification” to Butler’s policy. Magazine Preview: How Slavery Really Ended in America 2011-04-01T17:48:58Z In that rapidly developing slaveholding commonwealth where men gave little attention to things spiritual, even for the whites themselves, Harrison Ellis rose to great eminence as a power in the church. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The slaveholding States had every advantage, both in soil and climate, over their neighbors. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Again, in April, 1803, the United States purchased from France, for fifteen millions of dollars, the territory of Louisiana, comprising an area of 1,189,112 square miles, the whole of which was slaveholding territory. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z We desire to see a union among the States, but not a slaveholding union! Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z His claim to his seat was at first not resisted, and the first step in the programme for making Kansas a slaveholding Territory was thus successful. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z In the meantime, moreover, almost every Negro minister was otherwise engaged in spiriting away fugitives from the slaveholding States through the North into Canada. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z Outside of the larger cities of the South, there are not, probably, half a dozen newspapers in the whole slaveholding region that can safely challenge a comparison with the country-press of the North. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z As far back as 1829, the annexation of Texas was agitated in the Southern and Western States, being urged on the ground of the strength and extension it would give to the slaveholding interest. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z But we do believe that the slaveholding South is the only country on the globe, that can safely tolerate the rights and liberties which we have discussed. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z At any rate, it was the border slaveholding Commonwealths which wanted the law. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Orr, for this reason, has taken a more "national" view of politics, and has refused to go out of the Union for the sake of the slaveholding aristocracy. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Their slaveholding fellows are, in some respects, in a still more unhappy condition—helpless, nerveless, ignorant, selfish; yet vain-glorious, self-sufficient and brutal. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z All the slaveholding States, except Florida and Missouri, are represented in this class, South Carolina having one-fourth of the whole; 29,733 persons owned from ten to twenty slaves each. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z In slaveholding countries all freemen should vote and govern, because their interests are conservative. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Possibly, protected as their "States" were by the border slaveholding Commonwealths, they did not feel the necessity of such a law. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z When these States were colonies of Great Britain, every one of them was a slaveholding province. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z The arrangement affords, however, an excuse for constituting the Supreme Court, with a majority of judges from the slaveholding States. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must, and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirety a free labor nation. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z It beats up monthly thousands of recruits from free society in Europe and America, but makes not one convert in the slaveholding South. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z After the admission of Missouri there remained as territory, upon which, according to existing law, it was probable that slaveholding Commonwealths would be established, only Arkansas and Florida. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Then that act implied that the Territory of New Orleans was to be a slaveholding territory, by making that exception in the law. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z To her infamous slaveholding sisters of the South, it is now meet that she should set another noble example of decency, virtue, and independence. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The importation of African negroes from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States of the Confederated States is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z The special cruelties, together with the names of the perpetrators, which have been remembered and recorded, would form an appalling catalogue for the largest slaveholding community in the world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z In 1836, Arkansas was admitted as a slaveholding Commonwealth, and Michigan as a non-slaveholding Commonwealth, thus keeping the exact balance in the Senate. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z If these States are to again become universally slaveholding, I do not pretend to say with what violations of the Constitution that end shall be accomplished. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Among these may be mentioned the illbreeding and the ruffianism of slaveholding officials. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z From the foundation of the government—without a single interval, I think—the lawmakers from the slaveholding States had been, relatively, as strong, or stronger, than in 1860. A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z There was agony enough racking the bosoms of that half-million of slaves to sate a hemisphere of slaveholding tyrants. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z The customary law of the region seeking to become a Commonwealth permitted slaveholding. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z When the Constitution of the United States was formed, twelve out of the thirteen were slaveholding States. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Five slaveholding Presidents have been reëlected to the chief magistracy of the Republic, while no non-slaveholder has ever held the office more than a single term. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z When I grew up I learned that the ‘heroes’ of the Alamo were a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them. The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician 2010-05-09T02:34:00Z The unity which is natural to the slaveholding American was impossible in San Domingo, owing to the existence of the mulattoes and the little whites. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z The Commonwealths in which slaveholding generally and extensively prevailed regarded the guarantee as the principal consideration for their assent to the "compact." The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Whenever a slaveholding class finds the non-slaveholding classes yielding, it will continue its work of subjugation. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Throughout the entire slaveholding States, the newspaper or magazine that has improved during that time, is no less an exception to the general rule that there obtains. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The filibuster is merely a peculiarity of antiquated Senate tradition that once protected slaveholding states. Can Obama Bypass Republicans on Health? 2010-02-23T19:56:00Z They were, excepting a small minority, devoted royalists, but desired colonial independence in order to enjoy a perfect slaveholding authority. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z In self-defence the South must secure, therefore, the formation of new slaveholding Commonwealths. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Like the Hiroshima bomb, the revolution’s meaning could be rationalized or repressed but never really forgotten since it demonstrated the possible fate of every slaveholding society in the New World. 2010-01-19T14:33:00Z At a time when slaveholding was regarded as eminently respectable by the people of Illinois, Edgar held slaves, and in 1796 he was one of four who petitioned Congress to introduce slavery into the territory. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 The form of woman was never so mutilated and dishonored, the decencies of fetichism and savageism were never so outraged, as by these slaveholding idolaters of the Virgin and the Mother of God. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Census population records compiled from 1810 through 1850 show that slaveholding continued at a high level relative to other changing circumstances in agriculture and in the Moss family. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia Through the effective sympathy of other property classes, the slaveholding power maintains with entire safety a press and permanent political organizations in all the free States. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z The political preponderance of the slaveholding States, fostered and upheld by the immense money power of the North, had led their inhabitants to believe that they needed to endure no limits. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 But, as his lot might be cast in a slaveholding state, it was his duty, in addition to freeing his own slaves, that he should use every lawful means to enlighten public opinion. Discussion on American Slavery The ordinary brutalities of slaveholding were rendered more acute by this Creole temper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Now if this be so, our slaveholding brethren will confess that they are imperiously bound, by motives of Christian duty, to liberate their bondmen with all consistent speed. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery It is only as of yesterday, when the free citizens, assembled to discuss the exactions of the slaveholding class, were dispersed in Boston, Utica, Philadelphia and New York. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z They enjoyed fewer rights and suffered under a regime more inhuman than in any other slaveholding nation in history. Roman Women Mr. STEWART—I hope this Assembly are prepared to come out fully, and declare their sentiments, that slaveholding is a most flagrant and heinous SIN. Discussion on American Slavery And even now all the evidence disclosed implicates, directly and absolutely, but few of the members—not even all from the slaveholding states. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Universalism doctrine, And the justice of slaveholding, Formed two other grave discussions In the great divine’s career. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. Free, direct and manly utterance in the cause of freedom, even in the free States themselves, leads to ostracism, while superserviceability to the slaveholding class alone secures preferment in the national councils. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Mr. Clay went on to draw a picture of the condition of the country, and especially of the slaveholding States, in the event of a dissolution of the Union. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 The Southern Churches fully represented by row upon row of ministers and elders from every region of the slaveholding States. Discussion on American Slavery This was at that time the case even in the strongest of the slaveholding states themselves. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery In every slaveholding State in the Union, the subject of emancipation is regulated by statute; and the forms are prescribed in which it shall be effected. Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. In this course of rapid public demoralization, what wonder is it that the action of the Government tends continually with fearfully augmenting force to the aggrandizement of the slaveholding class? Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z They also recommended to the slaveholding States to go into convention, with a view to the restraint of further aggression, and if possible, to the restoration of the rights of the South. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Further, several of the slaveholding states had, and perhaps all of them would, prohibit entirely, emancipation, without some such outlet was created. Discussion on American Slavery We mention it as a matter of history, to confirm the Bible fact, that God always selects slaveholders, or from a slaveholding nation, the media through which he confers his blessings on mankind. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. This question has been examined in the courts of several of the slaveholding States, and different opinions expressed and conclusions arrived at. Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. But confining myself to the immediate future which is so fearfully visible, I ask you in all candor, first, whether I have ever before exaggerated the aggrandizement of the slaveholding class. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z This objection is rapidly vanishing away, and many of the slaveholding States are becoming efficient supporters of the national society. Thoughts on African Colonization But here again it is most clear that such a result can never be brought about, till the majority of such slaveholding communities shall not only consent to it, but require it. Discussion on American Slavery And the Saviour of the world was of a white slaveholding nation; and they held slaves by God's own laws, and not by theirs. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. Under the administration of Polk, California was annexed, not to independent, slaveholding Texas, but to the Union. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Perhaps you expect the slaveholding class will abate its pretensions, and practise voluntarily the moderation which you wish, but dare not demand at its hands. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z They are, themselves, chiefly slaveholders, and live, with all the ties of life binding them to a slaveholding community. Thoughts on African Colonization Throughout the whole slaveholding states there were not probably fifteen hundred soldiers. Discussion on American Slavery Samuel James May, the famous abolitionist, was driven from the pulpit as irreligious, solely because of his attacks on slaveholding. Humanity's Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889 In that he failed miserably at the moment; a few days later, Calhoun, on his death-bed, avowed himself the adviser of a secession of the whole body of the slaveholding States. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Beyond a doubt, Mr. Buchanan is faithful to the slaveholding class, as Mr. Fillmore vacillates between it and its opponents. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z One reason assigned by the Society for refusing to promote the education of our colored population, is, a dread of exciting 'the prejudices and terrors of the slaveholding States'! Thoughts on African Colonization Mr. Thompson had said that the question was national as it respected America, because slaveholding states had been admitted into the confederacy. Discussion on American Slavery The slaveholding institutions of the South are mainly sustained by men of high mental development and large intellectual culture. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 We have taught the slaveholding insolence the final lesson, that there is absolutely nothing to hope from the pusillanimity it counted upon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Does the slaveholding class even seek to beguile you with such a hope? Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z I do not mention this for the purpose of condemning the policy of the slaveholding States, but to lament its necessity.' Thoughts on African Colonization In Kentucky, slaveholding had been introduced only by a small majority. Discussion on American Slavery This is the legal condition of the slave—the same in all the slaveholding States. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 They did this too indiscriminately perhaps, while in one respect your institutions were far below our own, inasmuch as you were a slaveholding nation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Notwithstanding all the heroism of your champions in Washington and Kansas, the contest will be fearfully endangered, if the slaveholding class shall win the President and the Congress in this great national canvass. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z In St. Domingo the slaves were obliged to tear their liberty from the slaveholding planter, and from a government siding with the oppressor. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 It is gratifying to notice the gradual influence the abolition principles are obtaining over the hearts and consciences of every slaveholding community, especially over the hearts of Christian slaveholders. Discussion on American Slavery If a slave should talk of being protected in his domestic relations, it would cause great merriment in a slaveholding State; the proposition would be deemed equally inconvenient and absurd. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Let then the slaveholding States consult their present interest by beginning, without delay, the work of emancipation. The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. We inherited complicity with the slaveholding class, and with it prejudices of caste. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z The more I see of this doomed people, the more I am convinced of their intrinsic superiority over all their white revilers, above all, over this slaveholding generation, rotten, as it is, to the core. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Since my residence in this slaveholding State, I have seen nothing which should tend to alter my previous sentiments on this subject, on the contrary much to confirm me in them. Discussion on American Slavery The threats of separation have uniformly come from the slaveholding States; and on many important measures the free States have been awed into acquiescence by their respect for the Union. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans What greater pledge can we give for the moderation and safety of our measures than our own interests as slaveholders, and the ties that bind us to the slaveholding communities to which we belong? The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. The question now to be decided is, whether a slaveholding class exclusively shall govern America, or whether it shall only bear divided sway with non-slaveholding citizens. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Davis succeeds, he will be the founder of a new and great slaveholding empire. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Had they not compromised every principle of justice and truth, by permitting slaveholding in their Union? Discussion on American Slavery The admission of Missouri into the Union is another clear illustration of the slaveholding power. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Did the Americans who were "under your roof last summer" inform you that such language would be gratifying to their fellow-citizens "having no practical concern with slaveholding?" Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The war is mainly the result of misunderstandings and erroneous opinions in both the slaveholding and non-slaveholding sections of the Union, which dispassionate investigation will remove. The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 No one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community can have any idea of its abominations. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The great principle on which all their Societies were founded was the essential sinfulness of slaveholding, and the consequent necessity of its immediate and entire abolition. Discussion on American Slavery The limits of this work compel me to pass by many enactments in our slaveholding States, which would throw still more light on this dark subject. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Not by the denunciation of slaveholding as necessarily and universally sinful. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable. Slavery: What it was, what it has done, what it intends to do Speech of Hon. Cydnor B. Tompkins, of Ohio Massachusetts was then a slaveholding country, and Fleet owned several negroes, two of whom he instructed in the art of printing. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy At the time when the Constitution was agreed to, the then slaveholding states refused to come into what was called the confederacy of republics, unless slaveholding was permitted. Discussion on American Slavery The South no doubt gave her influence to General Jackson, from the conviction that a slave-owner would support the slaveholding interest. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans They argue thus: slaveholding is under all circumstances sinful, it must, therefore, under all circumstances, and at all hazards, be immediately abandoned. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject And here is the fatal mistake now committed in the southern slaveholding states—legislating against the instruction of their slaves—to keep them from knowing their rights. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West The dislike to the association of races in labour is, in the slaveholding States, less than in the North. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington Why, then, was Missouri admitted a member of the Union—Missouri a slaveholding State, admitted by the votes of the Northern republics. Discussion on American Slavery The reason given was because "their numbers were so few;" but in private conversation, fears were expressed lest their sable faces should give offence to our slaveholding President. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Every thing, therefore, is conceded which the abolitionists need require, when it is granted that slaveholding is in itself a crime. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It cannot be expected that I should pass in entire silence the system of slaveholding in the lower Valley, or its influence on the manners and habits of the people. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Booth wielding the assassin’s weapon is but the embodiment of the bowie-knife barbarism of a slaveholding oligarchy.” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Farming we all know, means in the slave states, 'slaveholding and slave-driving.' Discussion on American Slavery I apprehend that a person notorious for such gratuitous acts of kindness, would have little peace or safety, in any slaveholding country. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans It can not be that slaveholding belongs to the same category with these crimes; and to assert the contrary, is to assert that Christ is the minister of sin. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject But in all the northern slaveholding states, it is comparatively mild. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Mr. Toombs demanded that what was recognized by law as property in the slaveholding States should be recognized in the Mexican territory. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage The Societies of Friends generally did not tolerate slaveholding among their members; neither did the Covenanters. Discussion on American Slavery Every one of these items is a concession to the slaveholding policy. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The argument from the conduct of Christ and his immediate followers, seems to us decisive on the point, that slaveholding, in itself considered, is not a crime. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject She had, if disloyal, by her position and large white population, more power to imperil the Union than any of the slaveholding States. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The lecturer maintained that under this system, the African in the slaveholding States is found in a better position than he has ever attained in any other age or country, whether in bondage or freedom. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Had the Democratic party not gone over to the support of the slaveholding interest, Maine would have been a Democratic State at this day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 But Mr. Clay, Mr. Brodnax, and Mr. Faulkner, belong to slaveholding States; and the two former, if I mistake not, are slave-owners. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans It amounts to this: Christ and his apostles thought slaveholding a great crime, but they abstained from saying so, for fear of the consequences. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Northwest are to abandon their free institutions, become slaveholding States, and be admitted as such into the Southern confederacy. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Shiloh was not one of the fashionable churches of the city, but it was primarily a church home for any Southern negro, for in it were representatives of every one of the old slaveholding States. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Dr. B., who was an acute and ingenious reasoner, defended slaveholding by a variety of arguments, to which Dr. H. as ably replied. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? There was a time in many, if not in all the slaveholding districts of our country, when the murder of a slave was followed by a pecuniary fine only. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans What becomes then of the arguments and denunciations of slaveholding, which is despotism on a small scale? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The writ of habeas corpus was restored by the President's proclamation in Maryland, in Delaware, and in Missouri, all of which have been slaveholding States. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States In the days before the war the young master and the Negro boys played together and there was undoubtedly a strong tie of personal friendship between the slaveholding class and the Negroes on their plantation. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist The balance of power so long fluctuating between the free and the slaveholding States has at length entirely changed. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 In nearly all slaveholding States, a slave emancipated by his master's will, may be seized and sold to satisfy any debt. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans But slaveholding is denounced as a malum in se; as essentially unjust and wicked. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject I live in a State that was a slaveholding State until last January a year ago. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Why should we not all arise in tremendous power as whole races rose of old, and trample to the dust this insolent, slaveholding, liberty-defying foe to us and to the holiest rights of man? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The African slave trade had already been legislated against in many of the States, including Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, the largest slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Even in the slaveholding states it is deemed disreputable to associate with a professed slave-trader, though few perhaps would think it any harm to bargain with him. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans It is not enough, therefore, in order to prove the sinfulness of slaveholding, to show that it interferes with the natural rights of a portion of the community. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Well, by its terms it does, though practically it can have little if any operation outside of the late slaveholding States. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Northern men may pay a million a day in taxes, but the select slaveholding few who caused the taxation are to be exempted. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy And the right of transit by the owners with their slaves in passing to or from one slaveholding State or Territory to another, between and through the non-slaveholding States and Territories, shall be protected. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 They increase the negro race, but the negro can never increase theirs; and this is one great reason why the proportion of colored population is always so large in slaveholding countries. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans If, however, slaveholding is not in itself sinful, its abolition is not necessarily a duty. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The laws in the slaveholding States have made a distinction against persons of African descent on account of their color, whether free or slave. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The cause of the slaveholding States was getting weaker and weaker, and what were they to do? No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York They keep on making eloquent speeches—their pulpits thunder against the sin of slaveholding. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 They belong to the same State, and are protected by the same laws; but in the former, the slaveholding interest is very strong—while in the latter, it is scarcely any thing. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans If slaveholding is a heinous crime, slaveholders must be excluded from the church. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Of these one hundred and six were in the slaveholding States, and only four in New England and New York. Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 For one pulpit that is not "recreant to its trust," there are ten that openly defend slaveholding as compatible with Christianity, and scores that are dumb. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York We have no fears in trusting ourselves, if necessary, to our industry, our habits, and enterprise, separate from the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 He was a man of sterling character, fanciful, enthusiastic, an idealist even, with a horror of slaveholding, and a hankering for the pure life of the humanist. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 We maintain, that it is not by denouncing slaveholding as a sin, or by universal agitation at the North, but by the improvement of the slaves. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject This was what the slaveholding aristocracy saw at once to be the fatal omen for their cause, and nicknamed 'Abolitionism.' The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy If slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State jurisdiction? No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York Her representatives have been told somewhat sneeringly, that while slaveholding States voted against this proposition, New Jersey was the only free State that voted for it. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Even the Know-Nothings and Silver-Grey Whigs were coming up to the anxious seat, under the enlightening influence and saving-grace of slaveholding madness and crime. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 It is only in the slaveholding States of our Confederacy, that wealth can be acquired by agriculture—which is the general employment of our whole country. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject For we see now that for the sake of slavery the slaveholding leaders are willing to destroy the Government. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Our natural, God-given right of free speech, though constitutionally recognised as sacred in every part of the country, can be exercised in the slaveholding States only at the peril of our lives. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York This amendment will make the section much more acceptable to the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The feverish dread of war which prevailed throughout the Northern States was constantly aggravated by multiplying evidences of slaveholding desperation. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Turning from the consideration of slaveholding in its relations to man as an accountable being, let us examine it in its influence on his political and social state. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject A Southern divine in 1860 could well maintain that slavery was approved in both Old and New Testaments, but no Christian would now impute slaveholding to Jesus. The Mistakes of Jesus By no precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or justifiable. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York Mr. GUTHRIE:—In the early years of our Government this right was extended by courtesy to the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 One by one the slaveholding States were seceding from the Union. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 In the slaveholding States, however, nearly one-half of the whole population, and those the poorest and most ignorant, have no political influence whatever, because they are slaves. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The standard of human relationships has improved since slaveholding days in America. The Mistakes of Jesus As Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, so the slaveholding spirit of this nation rejoices, as one barrier of liberty after another is destroyed, and fresh victims are multiplied for the cotton-field and the auction-block. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York I came here in good faith, encouraged with the hope386 that this Conference would do something which would indicate a purpose to protect and acknowledge the rights of the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 It was a concession to the fierce passions of slaveholding politics. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Never, but in a single instance, have I heard of an imputation on the general purity of manners, among the free females of the slaveholding States. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject I will now institute one other comparison, Kentucky, slaveholding, with Ohio, a Free State. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The reasons adduced among us in justification of slaveholding, and therefore against personal liberty, are multitudinous. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York The people of the free States have complained, and not without good reason, that one clause in the Constitution is not carried into effect in some of the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 And thus the Bill of Rights of a slaveholding State will be no longer a mockery, but a living power. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I will venture to say that in a slaveholding community, a larger military force may be maintained permanently in the field, than in any State where there are not slaves. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject No reason can be assigned for these remarkable results, except that Kentucky was slaveholding, and Ohio a Free State. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The slaveholding States chose to make themselves a foreign people to us, and they must take the consequences. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays It is claimed that citizens of the slaveholding States have an equal right in the Territories with the citizens of the non-slaveholding States; and I admit they have. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 We need now no longer give guaranties to the slaveholding interest. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy An equally obvious deduction from the fact above referred to, is, that slaveholding is not necessarily sinful. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Moreover, as these new States would in all probability enter the Union as slaveholding communities, they would further impair the influence of the Eastern States in the National Government. Union and Democracy The bare possibility of this event was more than the slaveholding land-owners could face, and produced the desired effect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 The people of the free States, however, who believe that slaveholding is wrong, cannot and will not aid in the reclamation, and the stipulation becomes therefore a dead letter. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 It exists in Virginia in violation of the Bill of Rights, which is part of the organic law of that State, and, in its essential features, of every slaveholding State. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Does the gentleman mean to say the Greek language could not express the idea that slaveholding is sinful? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Throughout the story there is too much effort to evade eloquent facts, too much effort to excuse the sins of the South by showing that the North itself was once slaveholding and slavetrading. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 The early slaveholding inhabitants well understood the Ordinance to mean the absolute emancipation of their slaves, and hence manumitted them or commenced to remove them to the Spanish territory beyond the Mississippi. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Those guarantees must be such as will secure the honor and equal rights of the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The purpose of Walker was to seize Nicaragua, adopt slavery and convert the Central American states into slaveholding communities, and thus strengthen slavery in the United States. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. It might be supposed, from the representations of some writers, that a slaveholding country was one wide stew for the indulgence of unbridled lust. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Their good faith is sufficiently guarantied by the interest they have as merchants, as ship-owners, and as manufacturers, in preserving a union with the slaveholding States. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Pinckney, a lawyer of much general learning, paraphrased a passage of Burke to the effect that "the spirit of liberty was more high and haughty in the slaveholding colonies than in those to the northward." Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Congress has not had the sagacity to give the necessary guarantees, the proper assurances to the slaveholding States. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Our fathers would not allow the word 'slave' or 'slavery' in the constitution, when all the states but one were slaveholding. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. We, the slaveholding States, are in a hopeless minority in our own confederated Republic—to say nothing of the great confederacy of civilized States. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The circumstance of conformity or difference in the physical characters of the two classes; such a difference cannot but have a material influence, and is common to all the slaveholding countries within the American hemisphere. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 November 13th the Legislature of South Carolina stayed the collection of all debts due to citizens of non- slaveholding States. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 They know and we know that, unless the wisdom of this Conference shall devise some plan to satisfy the people of the slaveholding States—to quiet their apprehensions, a disruption of the Government is inevitable. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Seward said that an irrepressible conflict existed between opposing and enduring forces, that the United States must and would become either entirely a slaveholding nation or entirely a free labor nation. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The temples of the Lord are now seen studding these slaveholding localities over, and are vocal with his praise—the moral majesty of the law is a paramount power. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The national spirit of their masters, which has been graduated by philosophic writers among the slaveholding Colonies of Europe. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 It forbade the importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 It is believed by the people of Missouri that the rights and privileges of the slaveholding States are in danger, and that the time has arrived when they should be secured by additional guarantees. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 That peculiar obstinacy which slaveholding dominion seems to engender, made them, as with us, bent on having all or nothing. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Up to that time, the non-slaveholding States affirmed, and the slaveholding States tacitly admitted, that by this test, the slaveholding States must suffer in the comparison, in some important items. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Her relatives belonged to the society of Friends, and though living in a slaveholding community, she grew up with an abhorrence of slavery. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience The next day we marched on a road leading by old cotton fields, and felt we were in the heart of the slaveholding South. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 And the right of transit by the owners with their slaves, in passing to or from one slaveholding State or Territory to another, between and through the non-slaveholding States and Territories, shall be protected. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The object of this general convention was to present to Congress a Southern ultimatum, and in the event that this should not be heeded, to urge the secession of the slaveholding States. Expansion and Conflict The leading characteristic doctrine of this sect is that slaveholding is in all cases a sin, and should, therefore, under all circumstances, be immediately abandoned. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Those who fought the anti-slavery battle in Massachusetts have little realization of the difficulty and danger of maintaining similar sentiments in a slaveholding community, and a slave State. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience They were treated in this like the Southern slaves, and in fact there was really a sort of slaveholding in Ohio, in spite of the law. Stories Of Ohio What securities are provided in the Territories to the slaveholding States by this first section of the thirteenth article? A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The Colonization Society, therefore, sought to colonize the freedmen on the west coast of Africa, thus definitely removing the problem which was of such concern to the planters in slaveholding States. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 |
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