pro-slavist

plural pro-slavists · alternative proslavist

1. UShistoricalA supporter of slavery in the United States.

   Among the signers was John Rice Jones, a consistent pro-slavist[…]

   1890, W. A. Burt Jones, “Jones, John Rice”, in Chicago Historical Society's Collection, volume 4, page 239

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   […]and the other was Clement Vallandigham, of Ohio, then a hated pro-slavist and afterwards a noted opponent of the war to preserve the Union.

   1921, S. K. Donovan, “John Brown at Harper's Ferry and Charlestown”, in Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, page 322

   Antonyms: abolitionist, antislavist