7.They were also there to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, basically to make sure that these slaveholders actually were paying their newfound labor.
12.But he also represented slaveholders, owned slaves himself and despised abolitionism (the word " slave" appears ambiguously in his little-sung third verse).
13.Many of those responding to these events were the same people who responded very differently later when statues of Confederates and slaveholders were the focus.
14.So on June 19 in 1865, Union troops rode into Galveston, Texas, to inform slaveholders and enslaved people that the institution of slavery was ending.
15.Alexander Hamilton was therefore born into the layer of West Indian society below that of the plantation owners and slaveholders, but above the slaves.
17.From descriptions of such men as Burch and Freeman, and others hereinafter mentioned, they are led to despise and execrate the whole class of slaveholders, indiscriminately.
18.They did not like the idea that slaves should become free slowly, over time. And they did not think slaveholders should be paid to free their slaves.
19.For example, prior to the American civil war, to which we will be returning in a while, both the abolitionists and the slaveholders could support their causes with chapter and verse from the new testament.
20.Now if you're a historian, you have this extra layer of analysis you can do, where you can say, " Well, let's use this database and see if the slaveholders voted differently from those who were not slaveholders."