Legree
Americannoun
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Samuel Pinchard, the plantation owner, is a literary descendant of Simon Legree, but Jeffers has drawn him in the full height of psychological complexity.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2021
“In slavery, you couldn’t go down the road and visit anyone,” the scholar Mary Rivers Legree tells Gates.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021
Stowe did not vilify white southerners as innately immoral, but made Legree, her greatest villain, a transplanted northerner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
I’ll detail how Wiencek arrives at his bizarre proof of a Jefferson who suddenly becomes Simon Legree, but I should say up front that this book fails as a work of scholarship.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2012
Men and women read it, talked about it, cried over the death of Little Eva and of Uncle Tom, shuddered at the cruelty of Simon Legree.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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