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slave driver

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Recent Examples of slave driver The woman gives the girls two vials of concoctions, one for the zombie and one for the slave driver. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2021 Charles Deslondes, a slave driver of Haitian descent, marshaled an insurrection against the slaver Manuel Andry, turning the tools of the plantation—the axe, the sugar cane knife—against his master. — Kandist Mallett, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2021 What kind of man would say that if God demands a drop of blood in battle for every drop spilled by the slave driver’s whip, well, the judgments of the Lord are right and true? — Michael D. Capaldi, National Review, 24 Oct. 2020 In a federal lawsuit filed on his behalf by civil attorneys in late 2015, Smith compared Edwards to a slave driver. — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019

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But the true driving force was the slaveholder class, which held a majority in Congress.

— Karen Masterson, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
Like the president, Thompson was a Southern slaveholder.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026

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Born from the international slave trade during the 18th century, the hybrid language primarily blended the French spoken by colonists and slavers with multiple West African dialects, particularly from the Senegambian region.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Nov. 2026
In 2019, Glasgow University committed itself to alloting £20 million to reparative justice in response to a report that proved the university’s connections to Scottish slavers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

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