slave driver

as in slaveholder

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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 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
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Noun
  • The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike York, their fate is too well known: in 1857, seven of nine Supreme Court judges, four of them slaveholders, decreed that Dred Scott, and every other person of African descent, was not and could not be a citizen of the US.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 1 May. 2025.

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