slavocracy
/sley-vok-ruh-see/US // sleɪˈvɒk rə si //UK // (sleɪˈvɒkrəsɪ) //
奴隶制,奴隶主制,奴隶制度,奴隶制社会
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural slav·oc·ra·cies.
- : the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- : a dominating body of slaveholders.
Examples
It was thus that Van Buren made his extreme concession to the slavocracy.
The New England conscience excoriated these things and attributed them to the machinations of the slavocracy.
There was already much talk that Texas was being drawn toward the United States by the slavocracy.
If Douglas had the slavocracy back of him and catered to it, he did not have plutocracy back of him.
Douglas had wished for land for his country and had paralleled the course of the slavocracy to get it.
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