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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.
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2021
Brandon’s boss arrives at the meeting trying to stop the whole thing and the girls realize this guy is 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
Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2021
Brandon’s boss arrives at the meeting trying to stop the whole thing and the girls realize this guy is 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slave driver
Noun
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The study also concluded that 17 of Pope Leo's ancestors were Black, while 12 were slaveholders, owning between one and 20 people.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Anxious slaveholders constructed a rigid hierarchy intended to prevent their numerical superiors from launching large-scale revolts.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Three-quarters of officers, from both the northern and southern parts of the US, used enslaved servants during their military careers, with southern slavers especially determined to expand slavery within the Army (as elsewhere).—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Mar. 2025
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An exception was post-apartheid South Africa, where Jaco Boshoff, a researcher at the Iziko Museums, was looking for a Dutch slaver called the Meermin.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Slave driver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slave%20driver. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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