21. The theological importance of the book was that Bourne identified slaveholding as a sin. 22. Two slaveholding states, Maryland and Louisiana, had large contingents of Catholic residents. 23. Slaveholding in urban areas tended to be less rigid than in the rural South.24. It dominated the convention by a malapportionment that lent an advantage to the slaveholding east. 25. By a strict interpretation, the Gradual Abolition Act exempted only slaveholding members of Congress. 26. Dicks then traveled with her children to Ohio to flee the slaveholding state of Virginia. 27. Sam Clemens grew up with slaveholding parents and likely adopted local opinions of inherent black inferiority. 28. Mostly what he hated were Southern slaveholding politicians who had done him wrong during his presidency. 29. This division was related to the state's pattern of farming, plantations and slaveholding . 30. The Methodist and Baptist churches grew as their preachers accommodated slaveholding as a principle of continuity.
