proslavery

Word origin

From pro- + slavery.

Used in a sentence

• “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.”

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