slavocracy

plural slavocracies · alternative slaveocracy

1. UShistoricalThe persons or interest representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.

   Close on their heels was any Texan who had ever said a word against the slaveocracy, or the cotton men, or was suspected of voting for Lincoln.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 440

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   This pressure brought the Southern slavocracy into conflict with Northern business interests. Slaveowners precipitated a war to defend the slave system and its accompanying way of life.

   1993, Melvin M. Leiman, Political Economy of Racism, Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 35