proslavery
Supporting human bondage
Proslavery describes support for the institution of slavery, particularly in the context of antebellum American politics: proslavery arguments, proslavery Democrats.
The term appears almost exclusively in historical discussions of the debates leading to the Civil War: Proslavery forces in Congress blocked antislavery legislation.
Large-scale farming operation
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- SouthRegion with distinct identity
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
tobacco · overseer · fugitive · Mississippi · Virginia · Georgia · Alabama · Louisiana
Defender of a cause
- propagandistPusher of biased messaging
- defenderOne who guards another
- proponentOne who advocates something
- championTop competitor, or advocate
Calhoun · Hammond · pamphleteer · polemicist · lobbying · endorsement · spokesman · fire-eater
Controlling others for their good
- racialismDoctrine of ethnic determinism
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- chattelMovable personal property
racial hierarchy · social order · caste · hegemony · oligarchy · secessionism · elitism · natural order
Of sacred texts
- inferiorityLower status or quality
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- providenceDivine protective care
- destinyPredetermined course of events
natural law · heathenism · beneficence · stewardship · protection · scripture · morality · divine sanction
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- SouthRegion with distinct identity
cotton · tobacco · overseer · fugitive · Mississippi · Virginia · Georgia · Alabama · Louisiana · Dixie
apologist
Defender of a cause
- propagandistPusher of biased messaging
- defenderOne who guards another
- proponentOne who advocates something
champion · Calhoun · Hammond · pamphleteer · polemicist · lobbying · endorsement · spokesman · fire-eater · Democrat
paternalism
Controlling others for their good
- racialismDoctrine of ethnic determinism
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
chattel · racial hierarchy · social order · caste · hegemony · oligarchy · secessionism · elitism · natural order · civilizing mission
biblical
Of sacred texts
- inferiorityLower status or quality
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- providenceDivine protective care
destiny · natural law · heathenism · beneficence · stewardship · protection · scripture · morality · divine sanction · Christianization
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Antebellum Politicsmanifest destiny, states' rights, nullification, secession, sectionalism
proslaveryantislavery
Opposing human bondage
abolitionist · anti-slavery · emancipationist · abolitionism · antislavery movement
proslaveryegalitarian
Equality principle supporter
human rights · liberationist · emancipatory · anti-oppression
slave, slavery, slaves, enslave, slavish, enslaved, enslavement, slaver, slavishly