Meaning of slavemistress | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman who owns a slave.

Examples

“Sara and Ruth were to be put to kitchen duties. They were greeted by a slavemistress from the Rhineland who barked at them. Sara barked back and was cuffed.”

“This lack of concern for the development of these young human beings was enforced by racist slavemasters and slavemistresses.”

“Her next reward is the rediscovery of her biological child Eliza, who escaped to Montreal after being raised in Kentucky by the slavemistress Mrs. Shelby.”

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