proslavery

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proslavery

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From pro- + slavery.

adjective more proslavery · most proslavery

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.
Similar: proslave

noun

uncountable 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.
Similar: proslaveryism

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adj supporting slavery

Español	esclavismo
Français	esclavagiste

noun support for the institution of slavery

Français	esclavagisme

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@misc{proslavery_2026,
  title = {proslavery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/proslavery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}