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Negro-driver en · NOUN
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(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:
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