proslavery
Speech parts
1. proslavery - Noun
2. proslavery - Adjective
Meaning
Favoring slavery.
Advocacy of slavery.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
slave-owning
support of slavery
supporting slavery
advocacy of slavery
favoring slavery
in favour of slavery
pro slavery
slavery support
favoring the institution of slavery
Antonyms
antislavery
abolitionary
revocatory
advocating the abolition
advocating the abolition of slave trade
concerned with abolition of slave trade
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Examples
The Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation clause provided the proslavery camp with a bastion for fortifying the peculiar institution against congressional restrictions to its spread westward.
Under the "Jefferson-Lemen compact", Jefferson donated money to Lemen to found churches in Illinois and Indiana to stop the proslavery movement.