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slave driver
noun
- an overseer of enslaved laborers and enforcer of hierarchy and discipline in the institution of chattel slavery.
- a hard taskmaster:
His boss was a slave driver.
slave-driver
noun
- (esp formerly) a person forcing slaves to work
- an employer who demands excessively hard work from his employees
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slave driver1
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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It would have elevated the slave driver and left enslaved people hopeless.
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In response, Theresa May, the home secretary at the time, sponsored a bill to prosecute what she called “modern slave drivers.”
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She said that Italy had been giving immigrants few legal pathways, while instead letting migration be dominated by “smugglers” and “slave drivers.”
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I also see Trump's favorite president, Andrew Jackson, a literal white supremacist slave driver and a man who led a genocidal campaign against First Nations people.
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He worked the rat crews like a slave driver.
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