bondman

A freeman is one who tills his own land, and is no man's vassal or bondman.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

Instead it involved and assured for every bondman a full emancipation, and for every freeman full title forever to every unalienable right.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

It is always important to decide whether a bondman is in the seisin of his lord or not, and the chief means to show it is to trace his connexion with the territorial lordship.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

No, my pretty one, I have never been a bondman; and, what is more, I never shall.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

"Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide as a bondman, instead of the lad."

From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Elizabeth Erwin Miller Lobingier

In Canada, the bail system is largely predicated on community trust and connections and does not involve large cash deposits and commercial bail bondmen, as it does in many U.S. states.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021

As was too often the case, a handful of nervous bondmen informed their masters of what was afoot.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015

In the busiest underwriting week since 1929, bondmen offered $378 million of corporate and municipal bonds to an easy-money market that gulped the flotations and bid for more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retail bondmen complained of the small percentage of a security's selling price that they must work on.

From Time Magazine Archive

For as yet, artisans, wheelwrights, potters, armourers, and goldsmiths were most of them bondmen; as the number of markets and cities were small, their influence in the country was still unimportant.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag