massa
Enslaved person's address
Massa is a dialect or creole rendering of "master," historically used by enslaved Black people in the American South when addressing or referring to their white owners: Yes, massa.
The term appears in historical fiction, spirituals, and period depictions of slavery.
In contemporary use, it surfaces in discussions of racial history or satirically to evoke servility and racial subjugation.
Large-scale farming operation
- overseerOne who monitors work
- enslavedMade someone's property
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
abolition · antebellum · servitude · shackles · whip · auction · chattel · fieldhand
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
- overseerOne who monitors work
- enslavedMade someone's property
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
emancipation · abolition · antebellum · servitude · shackles · whip · auction · chattel · fieldhand · quarters
master
Authority or controller
lord · missus · boss · young master · old master
- center of massAverage position of distributed weight
- mass incarcerationExcessive imprisonment at scale
- mass tourismLarge-scale commercial travel
- the massesCommon populace collectively
- mass murderKilling multiple people simultaneously
- mass mediaLarge-scale communication channels
mass, massive, masses, amass, massed, massing, biomass, masseur, masseuse