slavocracy

[ sley-vok-ruh-see ]

/ sleɪˈvɒk rə si /

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noun, plural slav·oc·ra·cies.

the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.

a dominating body of slaveholders.

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Origin of slavocracy

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

OTHER WORDS FROM slavocracy

slav·o·crat

[sley-vuh-krat], /ˈsleɪ vəˌkræt/, nounslav·o·crat·ic

[sley-vuh-krat-ik], /ˌsleɪ vəˈkræt ɪk/, adjective

Words nearby slavocracy

Slavicist, slavish, Slavism, Slavkov, Slavo-, slavocracy, Slavonia, Slavonian, Slavonic, Slavophile, Slavophobe

How to use slavocracy in a sentence

Champions of genocide and race-based slavocracy, they were asserting, will be championed no longer.
Why knocking down statues is a tradition around the world|Colin Woodard|November 5, 2021|Washington Post
It was thus that Van Buren made his extreme concession to the slavocracy.
Martin Van Buren|Edward M. Shepard
The New England conscience excoriated these things and attributed them to the machinations of the slavocracy.
Children of the Market Place|Edgar Lee Masters
There was already much talk that Texas was being drawn toward the United States by the slavocracy.
Children of the Market Place|Edgar Lee Masters

If Douglas had the slavocracy back of him and catered to it, he did not have plutocracy back of him.
Children of the Market Place|Edgar Lee Masters
Douglas had wished for land for his country and had paralleled the course of the slavocracy to get it.
Children of the Market Place|Edgar Lee Masters

British Dictionary definitions for slavocracy

slavocracy

/ (sleɪˈvɒkrəsɪ) /

noun plural -cies (esp in the US before the Civil War)

slaveholders as a dominant class

domination by slaveholders

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