11. They struggled to settle there, also having to deal with slaveholding Loyalists. 12. The Catholic Church in America had long ties in slaveholding Maryland and Louisiana. 13. The Catholic Church in Maryland had supported slaveholding interests. 14. The church relinquished its slaveholdings only after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. 15. Q : There were 11 states in the Confederacy, but 15 slaveholding states. 16. In the ante-bellum South, theologians argued that the Bible defended slaveholding . 17. Though the Indian populations decreased over the next 30 years, their slaveholdings increased. 18. We are not to blame for America's slaveholding past, he said. 19. The conservative statesmen the slaveholding gentry retained control over the political apparatus. 20. The enslaved African Americans greatly outnumbered the white planters and non-slaveholding whites.
