slaveholding

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
2. noun The institution or practice of owning slaves.
3. noun An owning of one or more slaves.

Similar words

slave bond shipholding shipowning forepossessed rightsholding deedholding patentholding landowning leaseholding

Often followed by

states state and south class in society was whites