She had slave-owning ancestors and a trained voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Descendant of generations of slave-owning African kings himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Even now it might be in the hands of some slave-owning Confederate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell H. Conwell] Reference

Why then, my slave-owning friends would tell me not to buy any slaves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contentment] Reference

The old slave-owning aristocracy in the South has disappeared, but the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

I'm sure they would have, because we were in a slave-owning settlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

John Brown killed innocent slave owners doing perfectly legal slave-owning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is there a free speech right to sell and to own graphic videos of dogs fighting?] Reference

Children are people, and people are not goods except in slave-owning societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Perfect World, I'd Call Myself a Sociologist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

My family came from there, the Vann part of it did, were slave-owning planters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with C. Vann Woodward, January 12, 1991. Interview A-0341. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Remarkably, the song he is playing is “Dixie,” an anthem to the slave-owning South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overlooked Movie Monday: Starship Troopers » Scene-Stealers] Reference

If I had lived here 200 years ago, I hope I would not have had any slave-owning friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Dwyer: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?: Republican Friends] Reference

The history was already there, but the argument was safe to make in a slave-owning society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past] Reference

The history was already there, but the argument was safe to make (in a slave-owning society).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past] Reference

The "apprenticeship" of children taken prisoners in the native wars was uncommonly like slave-owning.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

This was the slave-owning woman who had never worked, even if she had been reduced to live by her wits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Gold] Reference

Chernow builds sympathy for a man born into the ruling class of colonial Virginia, the slave-owning gentry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Chernow's "Washington," reviewed by T.J. Stiles] Reference

Would Strom Thurmond have been such an ardent segregationist had he not come from a slave-owning background?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: How Many of Today's South Carolinians Have Slaveowners In Their Family Tree?] Reference

We're all supposed to feel guilty about being Indian-killing slave-owning Earth-raping lard-licking napalmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 old presidential campaign ads.] Reference

Jeez, it was written by slave-owning Dead White European Male landowners, so it really has no moral authority, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?] Reference

This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burton and Bekmambetov Team Up to Produce Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | /Film] Reference

It all started in the ancient Greek city-states, in the slave-owning aristocratic or democratic poleis (πüλεις).    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Student Revolts and Brutal Capital Accumulation] Reference

The prohibition of private slave-owning had a similar purpose, the state reserving to itself the right to keep slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

One thing that nobody brings up much about Obama is that he says he's got slave-owning blood and he seems to quite proud of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [So here's the new New Yorker cover.] Reference

I am not proud neither by my bloody cannibal ancestry, nor by my bloody slave-owning ancestry, nor by my bloody religious ancestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I don't see any way that the "average South Carolian native" can have a liklihood of having a slave-owning ancestor of anything near 50%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: More on Slaveowners in the Family Tree] Reference

I would assume not, since as a slave-owning Virginian he would almost certainly have joined Robert E. Lee in fighting for the Confederacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.] Reference

A woman from the twentieth century, Dana, is repeatedly brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

This is like white slave-owning colonizers who spoke about the oppression of native women, while they were abusing native men and women alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday, December 31, 2006] Reference

I left him in the home of his slave-owning forebears, oddly moved by the encounter, and returned to the forest path as the sun sank over Jamaica.    From Wordnik.com.  [My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica] Reference

You know, sort of like how they treat that worthless, outdated collection of words written by those slave-owning DWEMs a couple hundred years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Bybee Immigration Memo] Reference

It is the slave-owning South that wanted to count every slave as a full person, because it would have given them greater representation in Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [About that tainted federalism.] Reference

My mom just emailed me to make the point made here by Chuchundra -- Leviticus 25: 44-46, for example, deals with the rules for slave-owning Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: What Was Manischewitz Thinking?] Reference

You know, sort of like how they treat that worthless, outdated collection of words written by those slave-owning DWEMs a couple hundred years ago.geokstrQuote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Bybee Immigration Memo] Reference

England was still a slave-owning nation: an Emancipation Act was not passed until 1833 and slaves were not completely liberated in British colonies until 1838.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theatrical Forms, Ideological Conflicts, and the Staging of Obi] Reference

On the one hand, it is certainly false that most white South Carolinians (or more than a few free black South Carolinians) lived in slave-owning families before the Civil War.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: How Many of Today's South Carolinians Have Slaveowners In Their Family Tree?] Reference