noun
- 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.