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Simon Legree

noun

A cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees. Synonym: slave driver.

The cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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... 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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