slave driver
Example Sentences
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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
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
But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have given my life to the freeing of the slaves, and yet they have been made to believe that I was a slave driver.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell)
