Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ruling group of slaveholders or advocates of slavery, as in the southern United States before 1865.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Slave-owners collectively, or their interests, influence, and power, especially as exercised in the maintenance of slavery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, historical The persons or interest representing
slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brown grasped the painful truth that the reactionaries of his own era, those who championed centuries of white supremacy's "slavocracy" were -- like today's plutocrats -- utterly without shame.
Paula Gordon: Make a Joyful Noise Paula Gordon 2011
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Lincoln would have had no severe punishments inflicted even on leaders, but Johnson wanted to destroy the "slavocracy," root and branch.
The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Walter Lynwood Fleming 1903
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Rising from humble beginnings, he was animated by the most intense dislike of the "slavocracy," as he called the political aristocracy of the South.
The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Walter Lynwood Fleming 1903
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Twain admitted to once having embraced all the most cherished beliefs about racial difference and black inferiority that gave moral justification to the slavocracy of the antebellum South.
Craig Hotchkiss: Rewriting Huckleberry Finn Twists Twain's Intentions Craig Hotchkiss 2011
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Twain admitted to once having embraced all the most cherished beliefs about racial difference and black inferiority that gave moral justification to the slavocracy of the antebellum South.
Craig Hotchkiss: Rewriting Huckleberry Finn Twists Twain's Intentions Craig Hotchkiss 2011
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Twain admitted to once having embraced all the most cherished beliefs about racial difference and black inferiority that gave moral justification to the slavocracy of the antebellum South.
Craig Hotchkiss: Rewriting Huckleberry Finn Twists Twain's Intentions Craig Hotchkiss 2011
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Twain admitted to once having embraced all the most cherished beliefs about racial difference and black inferiority that gave moral justification to the slavocracy of the antebellum South.
Craig Hotchkiss: Rewriting Huckleberry Finn Twists Twain's Intentions Craig Hotchkiss 2011
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Twain admitted to once having embraced all the most cherished beliefs about racial difference and black inferiority that gave moral justification to the slavocracy of the antebellum South.
Craig Hotchkiss: Rewriting Huckleberry Finn Twists Twain's Intentions Craig Hotchkiss 2011
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Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere."
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" 2007
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No, Adams used the Law and his wits to mock the slavocracy every chance he had.
AN OPEN LETTER TO REPRESENTATIVE AND CANDIDATE DENNIS KUCINICH 2007
chained_bear commented on the word slavocracy
Also spelled slaveocracy.
October 6, 2010