31. Slavery existed among southeastern tribes in the 1790s and advised the tribes to take up slaveholding . 32. Prior to the American Civil War, Clevelanders viewed the slaveholding South based on political affiliation. 33. As in other slaveholding societies, the city was swept by periodic fears of slave revolt. 34. It is enough that the slaveholding interest wills it, from which there is no appeal. 35. In slaveholding areas of the United States, the torturous murder of a slave was illegal. 36. Between 1820 and 1840, John Sims increased his slaveholdings from 77 slaves to 137 slaves. 37. As one of the largest slaveholding states, Alabama was among the first six states to secede. 38. The decision was hailed in Southern slaveholding society as a proper interpretation of the United States Constitution. 39. As he went from one Friends'meeting to another, he expressed his concern about slaveholding . 40. He married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina.
