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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a slavocrat or slavocracy.

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Examples

  • From this date they lustily competed with the Republicans for the hosts of whig and democratic stragglers jostled from their old ranks by the omnibus bill legislation, the Kansas-Nebraska act, and the "Crime against Kansas" committed by Pierce and his slavocratic Senate.

    History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

  • How the great mass of illiterate poor whites, a majority of whom are the indescribably wretched tenants of these slavocratic landsharks, are specially imposed upon and socially outlawed, we shall, if we have time and space, take occasion to explain in a subsequent chapter.

    The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

  • Look at the map of the old Confereracy, instead of fighting to contain Southern fascism within the confines of a growing "conservative movement", American democracy is now threatening the very existance of a visable slavocratic politics.

    Firedoglake 2009

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