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slave breakers

slave breakers is the plural of slave breaker.

Meaning of slave breaker

Noun

slave breaker (plural slave breakers)

  1. A person who specializes in destroying the wills of unruly slaves, especially in the context of the antebellum American South.
    • Great George was having behavioral problems, so his master sent him to a slave breaker.

Questions about slave breakers

What is slave breakers the plural of?
Slave breakers is the plural of slave breaker.

Words near slave breakers in the dictionary

  1. slave boy
  2. slave boys
  3. slave bracelet
  4. slave bracelets
  5. slave breaker
  6. slave breakers
  7. slave camp
  8. slave camps
  9. slave chain
  10. slave chains
  11. slave clock

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