1. Unfortunately, most slaveholders kept no documentation of their evil enterprise. 2. Slaveless whites joined slaveholders in supporting slavery and opposing black equality. 3. The Home Mission Society prevented slaveholders from being appointed as missionaries. 4. In 1860, the majority of white residents were not slaveholders . 5. Methodists and Quakers especially worked to convince slaveholders to manumit slaves. 6. Among slaveholders , the concentration of slave ownership was unevenly distributed. 7. Although a slaveholder , Doniphan advocated the gradual elimination of slavery. 8. Quakers, Methodists and Baptists urged slaveholders to free their slaves. 9. Southern slaveholders looked to the Bible for language to control slaves. 10. He also was among prominent leaders in Utah who were slaveholders .