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slavocracy

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slav·oc·ra·cy  (sl-vkr-s)
n. pl. slav·oc·ra·cies
A ruling group of slaveholders or advocates of slavery, as in the southern United States before 1865.
slavo·crat (slv-krt) n.
slavo·cratic adj.
slavocracy [sleɪˈvɒkrəsɪ]
n pl -cies (esp in the US before the Civil War)
1. (Historical Terms) slaveholders as a dominant class
2. (Historical Terms) domination by slaveholders
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Thus what on the surface may appear to be a challenge to the power line created by the slavocracy not only redrew the boundary between white and black, free and slave, but also increased its rigidity.
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Not only is he personally questioning the slavocracy of the South, but he is also planting seeds of unrest and rebellion.
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Thus, from the turn of the century to 1860, slavery had been eliminated peacefully in dozens of countries, and not a single country had resorted to warfare in the process (earlier, the 1794 revolution in Haiti led to a violent overthrow of the slavocracy there).
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