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

Stern, on the other hand, is "a slave driver."

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)