Slavocracy
noun, plural slavocracies.
1.
the rule or domination of slaveholders:
the slavocracy of the old plantations.
2.
a dominating body of slaveholders.
noun (esp in the US before the Civil War) (pl) -cies
1.
slaveholders as a dominant class
2.
domination by slaveholders
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