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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

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

Origin of slavocracy1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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