1. governments or societies dominated by or dependent upon slavery; states where slaveholders hold political power
Usage: historical; plural form

Examples

• The antebellum South consisted of several slavocracies that resisted federal interference.
• Historians study how slavocracies maintained their economic and political systems.
• The conflict between free states and slavocracies led to the Civil War.
• These slavocracies depended heavily on enslaved labor for their agricultural economy.
• Political power in the slavocracies was concentrated among wealthy plantation owners.
• The expansion of slavocracies into new territories became a major political issue.