slavocracy

[ sley-vok-ruh-see ]

noun

, plural slav·oc·ra·cies.

1. the rule or domination of slaveholders:

   the slavocracy of the old plantations.

2. a dominating body of slaveholders.

slavocracy

/ sleɪˈvɒkrəsɪ /

noun

1. slaveholders as a dominant class
2. domination by slaveholders

Other Words From

• slav·o·crat [sley, -v, uh, -krat], noun
• slav·o·crat·ic [sley-v, uh, -, krat, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of slavocracy¹

First recorded in 1830–40; slave + -o- + -cracy

Example Sentences

Champions of genocide and race-based slavocracy, they were asserting, will be championed no longer.

From Washington Post

It was thus that Van Buren made his extreme concession to the slavocracy.

From Project Gutenberg

The New England conscience excoriated these things and attributed them to the machinations of the slavocracy.

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There was already much talk that Texas was being drawn toward the United States by the slavocracy.

From Project Gutenberg

If Douglas had the slavocracy back of him and catered to it, he did not have plutocracy back of him.

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Douglas had wished for land for his country and had paralleled the course of the slavocracy to get it.

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