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Recent Examples of slave driver
Brandon’s boss arrives at the meeting trying to stop the whole thing and the girls realize this guy is the slave driver.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slave driver
Noun
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Like the president, Thompson was a Southern slaveholder.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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People who were fleeing slavery knew where to look for the quilts, but slaveholders never learned about them and the secret codes.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Some of Diaz’s most stunning images hold Magellan to account, like a group of women, all dressed in black, swarming him for updates about their husbands and sons (all dead because of him), and another group of men, despondent and defeated, trapped in cages by Christian slavers.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2026
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In many different regions, groups seeking sanctuary from raids by slavers created new settlements during the 17th and 18th centuries.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Slave driver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slave%20driver. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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