slavemistress

plural slavemistresses

1. A woman who owns a slave.

   This lack of concern for the development of these young human beings was enforced by racist slavemasters and slavemistresses.

   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

   2 more examples

   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.

   1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, published 2009, →ISBN, page 157

   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.

   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