Simon Legree 

• SIMON LEGREE (noun)

The noun SIMON LEGREE has 2 senses:
1. a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees

Meaning:
A cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Simon Legree; slave driver
Hypernyms ("Simon Legree" is a kind of...):
employer (a person or firm that employs workers)

2. the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Meaning:
The cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Simon Legree is the Democrat equivalent to the Republican Uncle Tom.

Barack Obama equals Simon Legree.

Simon Legree by Intelligence Incarnate December 6, 2011