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
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
To defend the system of forced labor on which their economic survival and genteel lifestyles depended, elite southerners developed several proslavery arguments that they levied at those who would see the institution dismantled.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
The chief strength of the proslavery argument that emerged from the Deep South delegation in the congressional debate of March 16–17 was its relentless focus on the impractical dimensions of all plans for abolition.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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