单词 | negro-driving |
释义 | > as lemmasNegro-driving ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [adjective] > relating to overseer of slaves Negro-driving1798 1798 Speech John Allen House of Representatives 13 Giles (the negro-driving Gentleman of Virginia) aided him in the operation. 1807 Epics Ton ii. 249 The disbanded subalterns will find great encouragement as overseers of West India plantations, being already thoroughly versed in the whole business of negro-driving. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 8 Feb. (1939) 94 The true negroe-driving principle of self-interest. 1856 J. G. Whittier Panorama in Poet. Wks. (1894) III. 198 Mingling the negro-driving bully's rant With pious phrase and democratic cant. < as lemmas |
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