13 Metaphors for slaveholders

These two slaveholders were adjoining neighbors, you might say.

The fact is, the slaveholder feels the leprosy of slavery upon him.

But the Southern slaveholders are a very different race of men from either Manchester manufacturers or Massachusetts merchants; they are a remnant of barbarism and feudalism, maintaining itself with infinite difficulty and danger by the side of the latest and most powerful developement of commercial civilisation.

As the richest slaveholders were Episcopalians, the clergy of that denomination could hardly carry out a policy which might prove prejudicial to the interests of their parishioners.

It is probable that this slaveholder was a Dr. Blunt,his being the only plantation where the slaves were reported as thus defending their masters.

The slaveholder who whipped a female slave to death in St. Louis, in 1837, as stated by Mr. Cole, p. 69, was a Major in the United States Army.

" The following advertisements, testimony, &c. will show that the slaveholders of to-day are the children of those who shot, and hunted with bloodhounds, and burned over slow fires, the slaves of half a century ago; the worthy inheritors of their civilization, chivalry, and tender mercies.

He had heard all his life that the slaveholders were the friends of the South, and the language of his soul had been, "If these are my friends, save me from my foes."

Then slaveholders in the District of Columbia are slaves.

This "persistent and continuous coercion, compelling them to labour in conformity to a unitary plan or in accordance with a concentrating design" is commonly in its earlier form slavery, and slaveholders are thus the first possessors of capital.

A very few slaveholders in each of the slave states have been men of ripe education, to whom our national literature is much indebted.

Especially as this slaveholder is a native of one of the counties (Culpepper) near to which the atrocities described by Mr. B. were committed.

The slaveholder is the soul of the whole system.

13 Metaphors for  slaveholders