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Simon Legree   /sˈaɪmən lɪgrˈi/   Listen
Simon Legree

noun
1.
A cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees.  Synonym: slave driver.
2.
The cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.





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"Simon legree" Quotes from Famous Books



... show how slavery develops the worst men, of the stamp of Simon Legree, the brutal overseer. Legree pours out the vials of his wrath upon the slaves about him, debauching a young octaroon to the level of his mistress, hunting his slaves with bloodhounds, killing them without trial before a jury. Power is dangerous; there is the czar spirit in every ...
— The Battle of Principles - A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict • Newell Dwight Hillis


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