Negro-driver

English Noun en now historical An overseer of black slaves; a slavedriver. from 18th c. There is not one argument, one invective, levelled by you at the confiscators of the church revenue, which could not, with the strictest propriety, be applied by the planters and negro-drivers to our Parliament . en 2015 Michael Morris Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 98 It is now more widely known that Scotland's 'national bard' was preparing to travel to Jamaica in 1786 to work as what he calls a ‘negro driver’ on a slave plantation.