Definition of "slavocracy" []

• A ruling group of slaveholders or advocates of slavery, as in the southern United States before 1865. (noun)

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• "Brown grasped the painful truth that the reactionaries of his own era, those who championed centuries of white supremacy's "slavocracy" were -- like today's plutocrats -- utterly without shame."
• "Lincoln would have had no severe punishments inflicted even on leaders, but Johnson wanted to destroy the "slavocracy," root and branch."
• "Rising from humble beginnings, he was animated by the most intense dislike of the "slavocracy," as he called the political aristocracy of the South."