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A slavocracy (from slave + -ocracy) is a society primarily ruled by a class of slaveholders, such as those in the southern United States and their confederacy during the American Civil War. The term was initially coined in the 1830s by northern abolitionists as a term of disparagement and subsequently used in wider senses, including as a term for the planter class of such a society itself.[1] Slavocracies are also sometimes known as plantocracies, after "planter" used as a term for the owners of plantations.
A number of European colonies in the New World were largely slavocracies, usually consisting of a small European settler population relying on a predominantly West African chattel slave population as well as smaller numbers of indentured servants, both European and non-European in origin. In the Caribbean, the slaves were primarily used to produce sugar, while in North America the slaves were primarily used to produce cotton. These proslavery societies attempted to resist the abolitionist movement[citation needed] and subsequently relied on freed black and poor white sharecroppers for labor following abolition.
One prominent organization largely representing and collectively funded by a number of British slavocracies was the "West India Interest", which lobbied the British parliament on behalf of planters. It is credited with delaying the abolition of the slave trade from the 1790s until 1806–1808 and then delaying emancipation into the 1820s and 1830s, extracting reparations for the lost "property" in a policy known as "amelioration".[citation needed]
^"slavocracy, n.", Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
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controlled all three branches of government were turning the country into a slavocracy, the party's founders united against "slave power". These Republicans...
Carolina legislature, where he and his brother Thomas represented the landed slavocracy of the South Carolina Lowcountry. An advocate of a stronger federal government...
presidential campaign, wrote the Nashville Daily Gazette. The proponents of the slavocracy were embarrassed, demoralized and politically disoriented but not willing...
to the American colonies. Many in the colonies, including the Southern slavocracy, opposed further importation of slaves due to fears that it would destabilize...
with legalized slavery utilized enslaved people and benefited from the slavocracy. Slaves were also sold by university administrators to generate capital...
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growing political power of the Southern states, which she perceived as a slavocracy. She addresses her concern in a chapter titled "Influence of Slavery on...
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opposition to the slave system. Maroonage was a constant threat to New World slavocracies. Punishments for recaptured maroons were severe, like removing the Achilles...
instructors at these institutions were lowly paid 'tutors'. As objects of the slavocracy, African slaves and their descendants also served as free labor for more...
in a hostile newspaper as "perform[ing] the dirty work of the Southern slavocracy". He was always a vigorous supporter of those "states' rights". He believed...
who was a leader in a Quaker Church. In the United States, the southern slavocracy was an expression also known as the southern way of life. This form of...
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stalwarts of the northern war effort nor pure-and-simple dupes of the slavocracy, the Irish were capable both of ardent support and sacrifices for the...
around 1702, when sugar cultivation was introduced along with the typical slavocracy that accompanied the growth of sugar in the Caribbean. Slavery in the...
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