slaveholding

Noun

uncountable countable

(uncountable) The institution or practice of owning slaves. / (countable) An owning of one or more slaves.

Japanese Meaning

奴隷所有制度、つまり奴隷を所有するという制度や慣行を指す。 / 個別の奴隷所有行為を指す場合もある。

What is this buttons?

Historians debated how economic incentives sustained slaveholding in the region.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

歴史家たちは、地域で経済的な利害が奴隷制度を維持した仕組みについて議論した。

Details

Sense（1）

(uncountable) The institution or practice of owning slaves.

The slaveholding way of life continued until 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed following the end of the Civil War between the Northern and the Southern states

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Sense（2）

(countable) An owning of one or more slaves.

On the other hand, the Mountain South also contained some Lower South counties, thereby permitting internal comparisons between differently sized slaveholdings, between crop specializations, and between agricultural and nonagricultural producers.

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