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Negro-drivers

Negro-drivers is the plural of Negro-driver.

Meaning of Negro-driver

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

Questions about Negro-drivers

What is Negro-drivers the plural of?
Negro-drivers is the plural of Negro-driver.

Words near Negro-drivers in the dictionary

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

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