slavocracy
/sleɪˈvɑkrəsi/
noun
- A group of people who owned slaves and had political power, especially in the southern United States before the Civil War.
- The slavocracy's power depended on maintaining the institution of slavery.
- Historians debate how much influence the slavocracy had on national policies.
- The slavocracy controlled much of the political decision-making in the pre-Civil War South.
- A society or system in which slave owners hold the ruling power.
- The novel depicts a fictional slavocracy where a wealthy elite owns all the land and workers.
- Some scholars argue that the Roman Republic was a kind of slavocracy.
- The term 'slavocracy' is used to describe any government dominated by slaveholders.