slave driver

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The rebels were led by Charles Deslondes, a mixed-race slave who laboured as a slave driver on Andry’s plantation.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2019

Perhaps as many five hundred joined the rebellion, led by Charles Deslondes, a mixed-race slave driver on a sugar plantation owned by Manuel Andry.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

He considers the adrenals the "power station" of the sympathetic nervous system, the frontal lobe of the brain as the "slave driver."

From Time Magazine Archive

But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash.

From Time Magazine Archive

And just to59 prove I ain't any slave driver I sort of eggs Miss Casey on, from then until the noon hour, to chat away about this war romance of hers.

From Torchy and Vee by Ford, Sewell