| 单词 | soul driver |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoul driver soul driver n. †(a) slang a clergyman (obsolete rare); (b) North American a person who trades the services of convicts, indentured servants, or slaves (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves knave-seller1552 mango1602 Guinea merchant1719 slave-merchant1746 Guinea-man1756 Guinea trader1756 soul driver1774 Negro-dealer1799 slave-trader1813 nigger jockey1838 Negro-hunter1839 slaver1842 fleshmonger1845 man-dealer1860 blackbirder1876 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Soul-driver, a Parson. [Also in later dictionaries.] 1774 in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1900) 6 77 Among them there was two Soul drivers. They are men who..drive them [sc. servants and convicts] through the Country..untill they can sell them to advantage. 1818 Massachusetts Spy 4 Nov. Two men, in the character of soul drivers, lodged in the jail for safe keeping, five negros. 1901 K. F. Geiser Redemptioners & Indentured Servants v. 54 The general demand for servants in the colony gave rise to a class of dealers, called ‘soul-drivers’, who found it profitable to retail servants among the farmers. 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit 230 Individuals who speculated in the purchase and sale of slaves were called ‘Negro-drivers’ or ‘soul-drivers’. 2008 C. Blevins Midwife of Blue Ridge iv. 41 Many an unfortunate lass wound up working the terms of her contract flat on her back in a brothel—an all-too-typical sale for a soul driver. < as lemmas |
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