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Negro-driver

Negro-driver noun: an overseer of black slaves; a slavedriver.

Noun

Negro-driver (plural Negro-drivers)

  1. (historical) An overseer of black slaves; a slavedriver.
    • There is not one argument, one invective, levelled by you at the confiscators of the church revenue, which could not, with the strictest propriety, be applied by the planters and negro-drivers to our Parliament […].1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
    • It is now more widely known that Scotland's 'national bard' was preparing to travel to Jamaica in 1786 to work as what he calls a ‘negro driver’ on a slave plantation.2015, Michael Morris, Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833, page 98

Forms of Negro-driver

pluralNegro-drivers

Questions about Negro-driver

What does Negro-driver mean?
Negro-driver means an overseer of black slaves; a slavedriver.
What part of speech is Negro-driver?
Negro-driver is a noun.
What is the plural of Negro-driver?
The plural of Negro-driver is Negro-drivers.

Words near Negro-driver in the dictionary

  1. negro spirituals
  2. negro yam
  3. negro yams
  4. Negro-African
  5. Negro-American
  6. Negro-driver
  7. Negro-drivers
  8. Negro-Egyptian
  9. Negro-head
  10. negro-house
  11. negro-houses

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