单词 | nonslaveholder |
释义 | nonslaveholdern. U.S. Now historical. A person who owns no slaves or who employs freemen and not slaves, esp. in a slave state. ΚΠ 1832 T. J. Randolph Speech on Abolition of Slavery 16 The burden of this defence..is to fall upon the less wealthy class of our citizens; chiefly upon the non-slaveholder. 1850 W. B. Seabrook Life & Corr. Quitman (1860) II. xiv. 37 A large proportion of the population are non-slaveholders. 1960 G. Ostrander Rights of Man Amer. xii. 264 The planter..came to be seen by the non-slaveholder as performing a vital function for the whole community. 1991 B. Wyatt-Brown in W. J. Cash Mind of South Introd. p. xii His family belonged to the middling class of nonslaveholders who were often called ‘the yeomanry’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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