perpetualistn.
/pəˈpɛtʃʊəlɪst/, /pəˈpɛtʃᵿlɪst/, /pəˈpɛtʃl̩ɪst/, /pəˈpɛtjʊəlɪst/, /pəˈpɛtjᵿlɪst/, U.S. /pərˈpɛtʃ(əw)ələst/ U.S. Now historical.
A person who believes in or advocates the perpetuation of slavery.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution > one who favours or upholds
slavite1831
perpetualist1847
slavist1889
1847 S. P. Chase Let. 2 Dec. (1993) II. 161 Gen. Taylor's response to the Signal letter has shaken the confidence of the Perpetualists in him.
1872 H. Wilson Hist. Slave Power I. 574 It was..a most potent weapon in the hands of the apologists, perpetualists, and propagandists of slavery.
1935 W. S. Jenkins Pro-Slavery Thought Old South iii. 147 The perpetualists composed a large part of the Southern propagandists.
1992 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 58 122 A South divided into upper versus lower, extremists versus moderates.., slaveholding perpetualists versus conditional terminators, and so forth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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