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slavocracy|sleɪˈvɒkrəsɪ|
Also slaveocracy.
[f. slave n.1 + -ocracy, but with erroneous application.]
The domination of slave-holders; slave-holders collectively as a dominant or powerful class.
1840Illinois State Reg. (Springfield) 22 Jan. 2/2 The reign of the slaveocracy is hastening to a close. 1848N.Y. Express 4 Sept. (Bartlett), An exhortation to curb the slaveocracy. 1863W. Phillips Sp. xxiv. 526 Union means a submission to the old slavocracy. 1896E. B. Gordon Biogr. A. J. Gordon 68 The devouring indignation against the slavocracy which possessed the soul of Theodore Parker.
So ˈslavocrat, a member of the slavocracy.
1842S. M. Gates Let. 24 Jan. in J. G. Birney Lett. (1938) II. 666 Some Slaveocrats in Georgia have lately attempted to cast odium upon Mr. Adams. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. 413. 1882 H. von Holst Calhoun ix. 308 The slavocrats..were not such doctrinaires as to risk their bones in charging windmills. |