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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Tens of thousands of Americans who had not even read the book already knew Simon Legree as the classic slave driver and Uncle Tom as the black victim.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The necessity that knows no law, is the only real slave driver, as the sojourner in Eastern exile knows full well.

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir