"holding" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During this time it is believed the present farmhouse at Woodville was also built, since Neville reported a tenfold increase in his slave holdings in 1780.
- Certainly, many of them were wealthy men, and the Father of Our Country was said to be the wealthiest man in the colonies from his land and slave holdings.
- A 1769 advertisement described the farm's slave holdings, and shackles were found there.
- Figures from 1860 reveal slave holdings in York County were relatively small, with approximately 70% of all farms holding fewer than 10 slaves and less than 3% of the farms with 50 or more.
- The Blakes and Heighes were Maryland colonists, prominent in the Church of England, active in political affairs, and planters with slave holdings.
- Archaeological excavations, legal records and even business documents have shed light on the considerable slave holdings in the North, not least in 18th-century New York City.
- This greatly frightened the major powers of the day (GB, US, France, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal) who had extensive slave holdings.
- He spent most of his time managing the family's extensive land and slave holdings in North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee.
- Ironically, he attempted to leave his slave holdings as property to endow a seminary in Louisiana.
- This was customary practice in those years by planters who had sufficient slave holdings.
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