slavemistress

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English

Etymology

From slave +‎ mistress.

Noun

slavemistress (plural slavemistresses)

  1. A woman who owns a slave.
    • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, published 2009, →ISBN, page 157:
      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.
    • 1991, Frances Cress Welsing, “Black Child-Parents: The New Factor in Black Genocide”, in The Isis (Yssis) Papers, Chicago, Ill.: Third World Press, →ISBN, page 259:
      This lack of concern for the development of these young human beings was enforced by racist slavemasters and slavemistresses.
    • 2008, Tom Burns, editor, Children’s Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People, volume 131, Gale, →ISBN, page 180, column 2:
      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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