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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
  1. 1

    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.