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Definition of Proslavery

Proslavery
Proslavery Pro*slav"er*y, a. [Pref. pro- + slavery.] Favoring slavery. -- n. Advocacy of slavery.

Meaning of Proslavery from wikipedia

- Proslavery is support for slavery. It is sometimes found in the thought of ancient philosophers, religious texts, and in American and British writings...
- murders carried out in the Kansas Territory and neighboring Missouri by proslavery "border ruffians" and retaliatory raids carried out by antislavery "free-staters"...
- Border ruffians were proslavery raiders who crossed into the Kansas Territory from Missouri during the mid-19th century to help ensure the territory entered...
- South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23648-8. Tise, Larry E. (1987). Proslavery: A History...
- southern United States prior to the extirpation of slavery in 1865, a proslavery legal treatise reported that slaves accused of crimes typically had a...
- britannica.com. Retrieved October 30, 2022. Finkelman, Paul (2013). "How The Proslavery Constitution Led To The Civil War". Rutgers Law Journal. 43 (3): 405....
- the Constitution in 1787, which, because of compromises, ended up with proslavery and antislavery features. The issue of slavery had confounded the nation...
- John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who ********inated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre...
- all ****ure states and territories, and southern "anti-restrictionists", proslavery legislators who rejected any interference by Congress that inhibited slavery...
- [O]nly 20 percent of the sample of 429 Southern soldiers explicitly voiced proslavery convictions in their letters or diaries. As one might expect, a much higher...