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.
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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
But although Johnson, an abolitionist, intended the scene to humanize African Americans, the artwork would go on to be used as proslavery propaganda.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
While it did not cause the Civil War, it was the culmination of increasing tensions between the proslavery South and the antislavery North.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
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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