1805 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled i. 3 The genuine-republican-slave-driving-nabobs of Virginia, who would fain conceal their designs of domination beneath the mask of liberty, and a pretended zeal for the rights of the people.

1861 J. B. Jones Secession, Coercion, & Civil War xxix. 219 General Balatrum..forces our young people into the ranks of his brigade, and swears, in vile language, that they shall fight against the slave-driving Southerners.

1912 A. Mee et al. Pop. Sci. xi. 2087/1 We are told that we must not look to the slave-driving Greek and Roman for the germs of modern freedom.

2013 R. G. Kennedy Cotton & Conquest (e-book ed.) xiv He regarded the expansion of the slave-driving plantation system as ordained neither by history nor by any sort of genetic destiny.

1824 Thoughts on Prison Labour App. p. xxiv We visited this mill since commencing this article, and the system seemed so slave-driving that we cannot recall or mitigate any thing we have said.

1831 Voice of People (Manchester) in Cobbett's (Weekly) Polit. Reg. 6 Aug. 380/2 [With reference to the charitable institutions founded by wealthy manufacturers.] 'Tis they and their slave-driving practices who have created a necessity for them.

1891 J. A. Picton Sir James A. Picton iv. 73 Whatever of carnal nature was left in him [sc. a runaway apprentice] felt greatly relieved to find that this slave-driving master was dead.

1937 N. Jacob Time Piece iv. 266 I shall be back in a month—that's all the time my slave-driving mother will allow my wretched husband.

2008 G. Stergiopoulos Treat them Mean & keep them Keen i. 39 Have a scout around, send out a few CVs, find yourself something with better hours and tell the slave-driving boss where to stick it.

1813 Repertory (Boston) 21 Aug. That wild region of democracy, blustering, and slave driving.

1840 Emancipator (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 131/5 A gang of slaves, fifteen or twenty men, with one or more women, all fastened to one common chain in the usual manner of slave driving.

1853 Provinc. Freeman 24 Mar. in Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, Ohio) 16 Apr. There are some parties here [sc. Canada] who practice slave-driving in the South.

1917 F. S. Dellenbaugh George Armstrong Custer ix. 71 The south had always treated manufacturing and ‘shopkeeping’ with contempt, though just why these were any more degrading than slave-driving was never explained.

1960 Nation 17 Dec. 477/2 Even given brutal slave-driving, murder, rapine, and terror, à la King Leopold, the Congo can't be made to produce.

2012 D. Andress Savage Storm viii. 176 Behind the domestic dramas of Mansfield Park lurks the reality of wealth earned from Caribbean slave-driving in a decade of war.

1815 E. Wood Quakerism Unveiled 245 To be urged on to work, and to be interrogated, ‘is this all you have done?’ ‘I would have done it in half the time!’ and such like is slave driving with a witness to it.

1889 G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 23 Its ferocious sweating and slave-driving.

1917 Dundee Tel. 30 Oct. 2/4 I don't think there is very much slave-driving in Dundee or anywhere else in Britain at the present moment. So far as I can see, the higher the wages rise the less work is done.

1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten i. 13 He's gone like Thomas and John before him to escape your slave-driving.

2015 @GG1983LL 18 June in twitter.com (accessed 18 May 2022) They pay their drivers peanuts, it's slave driving.