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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
Gerrit Smith

Meaning of "proslavery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROSLAVERY

proslavery  [ˌprəʊˈsleɪvərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROSLAVERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proslavery is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROSLAVERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

proslavery

Proslavery

Proslavery ideology arose in the antebellum United States. It began as a reaction to the growing antislavery movement in the United States in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

Definition of proslavery in the English dictionary

The definition of proslavery in the dictionary is in favour of or supporting slavery.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROSLAVERY


antislavery
ˌæntɪˈsleɪvərɪ
bravery
ˈbreɪvərɪ
delivery
dɪˈlɪvərɪ
engravery
ɪnˈɡreɪvərɪ
flavory
ˈfleɪvərɪ
flavoury
ˈfleɪvərɪ
ivory
ˈaɪvərɪ
knavery
ˈneɪvərɪ
livery
ˈlɪvərɪ
quavery
ˈkweɪvərɪ
redelivery
ˌriːdɪˈlɪvərɪ
rivery
ˈrɪvərɪ
salivary
ˈsælɪvərɪ
Savery
ˈseɪvərɪ
savory
ˈseɪvərɪ
savoury
ˈseɪvərɪ
slavery
ˈsleɪvərɪ
special-delivery
ˌspɛʃəldɪˈlɪvərɪ
unsavoury
ʌnˈseɪvərɪ
wavery
ˈweɪvərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROSLAVERY

prosier
prosiest
prosify
prosiliency
prosilient
prosily
prosimian
prosiness
prosit
proslambanomenos
proso
prosobranch
prosocial
prosodial
prosodian
prosodic
prosodical
prosodically
prosodist
prosody

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROSLAVERY

beavery
cash on delivery
discovery
every
express delivery
home delivery
Medal of Bravery
pizza delivery
recorded delivery
recovery
self-discovery
servery
severy
shivery
silvery
special delivery
thievery
very
waste heat recovery
white slavery

Synonyms and antonyms of proslavery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «proslavery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROSLAVERY

Find out the translation of proslavery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of proslavery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «proslavery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

array(国家)派出
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

proesclavista
570 millions of speakers

English

proslavery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

proslavery
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

proslavery
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

proslavery
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escravista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

proslavery
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

esclavagiste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Proslavery
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sklavereifreundlichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

proslavery
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노예제 지지자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Proslemen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

proslavery
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

proslavery
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संभाव्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

proslavery
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

schiavista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

proslavery
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

proslavery
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proslavery
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

proslavery
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

proslavery
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proslavery
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proslavery
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proslavery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSLAVERY»

The term «proslavery» is normally little used and occupies the 136.151 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSLAVERY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about proslavery

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QUOTES WITH «PROSLAVERY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word proslavery.
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Gerrit Smith
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSLAVERY»

Discover the use of proslavery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proslavery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, ...
Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an ...
Larry E. Tise, 1990
2
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black ...
As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals.
Charles F. Irons, 2008
3
Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of ...
"Fanatical Schemes" is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830s.
Patricia Roberts-Miller, 2010
4
A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations ...
Details the long and troubled history of American relations with Haiti.
Tim Matthewson, 2003
5
The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the ...
The works in this collection portray the development, mature essence, and ultimate fragmentation of the proslavery argument during the era of its greatest importance in the American South.
Drew Gilpin Faust, 1981
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The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery ...
In The Debate Over Slavery David F. Ericson makes the controversial argument that despite their many ostensible differences, most Northern abolitionists and Southern defenders of slavery shared many common commitments: to liberal principles ...
David F. Ericson, 2000
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An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and ...
An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918 details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. Award-winning historian John David Smith argues that African American slavery remained a ...
John David Smith, 2008
8
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, ...
The tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses of human bondage had a history in southern thought that long predated the later antebellum era traditionally associated with the genesis of such positive ...
Jeffrey Robert Young, 2006
9
Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A ...
In this volume, Paul Finkelman presents a representative selection of proslavery thought and includes an introduction that explores the history of slavery and the debate over it. His headnotes supply a rich context for each reading.
Paul Finkelman, 2003
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The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery
The assault was one incident in a series of events in the 1850s connected with the debate on slavery, and it represented the growing hostility between anti- and proslavery forces and an increasing sectional and political rivalry that eventually  ...
Junius P. Rodriguez, 1997

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