Русско-англо-русский юридический словарь

It is a story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom... (George W. Bush inaugural address: Jan. 20, 2005, CBS News)

Brazil, which has more people of African descent than most African nations, was the largest slaveholding society in the Americas. (The Conversation)

A major theoretical issue is the relationship between productive slavery and the status of a society as a slave or a slave-owning society. (Britannica)