proslavery
Americanadjective
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favoring slavery.
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U.S. History. favoring the continued enslavement of Black people, or opposed to ending or altering the institution of slavery.
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- proslaver noun
- proslaveryism noun
Etymology
Origin of proslavery
Example Sentences
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When a Kentucky constitutional convention finally did meet, it was dominated by conservatives who actually strengthened the proslavery laws, to Clay’s chagrin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
His father, Philip, worked for Buchanan’s Democratic Party and lived on F Street NW between 13th and 14th streets, in a largely proslavery neighborhood.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
In the alleys behind some of those rowhouses, artist Eastman Johnson had spent time with people who were less than pleased about the election of a proslavery Democrat.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
Virginia planter George Fitzhugh took the proslavery argument to its furthest extreme.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
On the one hand, he found the blatantly proslavery arguments “shamefully indecent” and described his colleagues from South Carolina and Georgia as “intemperate beyond all example and even all decorum.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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