Associations to the word «Slaveholding»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King