| 单词 | slave breaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave breaker slave breaker n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) a person who uses physical violence or other coercive measures to force an enslaved person to become tractable or submissive, esp. someone employed to do this; cf. breaker n.1 3. Π 1845 Atlas 8 Nov. 726/2 (heading) Not a horse-breaker, but a slave-breaker. 1881 F. Douglass Life & Times xvi. 446 He had..hired me out to a noted slave breaker to be worked like a beast and flogged into submission. 1956 K. M. Stamp Peculiar Institut. 188 If a master was too squeamish to undertake the rugged task of humbling a refractory bondsman, he might send him to a..professional ‘slave breaker’. 2019 A. J. Fuller in L. M. Harris et al. Slavery & University vi. 122 The Charleston workhouse was a hellish place where slave breakers worked fiendishly with whips to punish slaves chained like animals to the treadmill. < as lemmas |
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