英和和英

語源

From slave +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

名詞

slavocracy (複数形 slavocracies)

1. (US, chiefly historical) The persons or interest representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.
   • 1993, Melvin M. Leiman, Political Economy of Racism, Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     This pressure brought the Southern slavocracy into conflict with Northern business interests. Slaveowners precipitated a war to defend the slave system and its accompanying way of life.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 440:

     Close on their heels was any Texan who had ever said a word against the slaveocracy, or the cotton men, or was suspected of voting for Lincoln.