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slavocracy

slavocracy

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A society where slave owners control the government and people's lives
  • noun
  • /sləˈvɒkrəsi/
: esclavocracia
  • During the debate, the politician argued against the dangers of a slavocracy that denied basic freedoms to many citizens.
  • Greater slavocracy

Examples

  • The historian wrote extensively about how the slavocracy influenced the laws and social dynamics of that era.

  • But the Greater Slavocracy knew enough about this planet to want to destroy it.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Firstly, any enemy of the Slavocracy could be a friend of ours.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • "The Slavocracy expanded unchecked for over a thousand years."

    Fiction book (1993)
  • This might very well have been the first planet to rebel p203 successfully against the Greater Slavocracy.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • "It has been fifty years since the Greater Slavocracy was defeated, but that doesn't mean it was eliminated," Commander Stane said.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Though it can be reasonably argued that this pattern was more subtle in North American slavocracies, it nonetheless is an insidious force that has dramatically influenced the cultural psychology of those exposed to color definitions.

    Academic text (1994)
  • His works had become a leading source for understanding sociological insights about what this country had become, particularly on how it had evolved and changed over the decades of conflicts between major economic classes, beginning with the conflicts between the slavocracy of big plantation owners who controlled the southern plantation system and the corporate and industrial barons who controlled the emerging capitalist developments in big northern cities prior to Reconstruction.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In the old novel, the ruling class maintained a strict slavocracy that oppressed the working population.

Surface Forms

slavocracy singular
slavocracies plural

Morphology

slavocracy = slave (opaque) = slave + ocracy

The word is built from 'slave' plus '-ocracy', but its actual meaning refers to rule by slaveholders rather than a straightforward 'rule of slaves' interpretation.

Etymology

Slavocracy comes from slave and the ending -ocracy, the same ending as in democracy, where -ocracy means 'rule'. So a slavocracy is a society or government ruled by slaveholders.