1. 
[syn: slave driver, Simon Legree]
2.  the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe; 
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Simon Legree
    n 1: a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the
         employees [syn: slave driver, Simon Legree]
    2: the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet
       Beecher Stowe
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "Simon Legree":
   absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator,
   autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot, dictator,
   disciplinarian, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch,
   oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, taskmaster, tyrant,
   usurper, warlord