slavemistress

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.

Hypernyms

• slaveowner

Coordinate terms

• slavemaster