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proslavery

adj

Etymology

From pro- + slavery.

  1. derived from σκῡλεύω
  2. derived from Σκλάβος
  3. derived from Sclavus — “Slav”
  4. derived from sclavus — “slave”
  5. derived from sclave
  6. inherited from sclave
  7. suffixed as slavery — “slave + ery”
  8. prefixed as proslavery — “pro + slavery”

Definitions

  1. Supporting slavery.

    • By 1835 the excitement was at its height, and especially along the line of the moral and religious argumentation, where the proslavery men met talk with talk.
    • When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor.
    • His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views, which he tried to justify through pseudoscience.

  2. Support for the institution of slavery.

    • The old wisdom that southerners rose up in unison in 1831 after a decade of preparation in the tenets of proslavery is patently an erroneous interpretation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA