bondman

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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 Beardslee, Clark S.

Now, being over twenty-one I was my own bondman, and the bank couldn't collect from anybody but me—or the guarantee company.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.

If having no wife is to be free, you can hardly call him a bondman.

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

And now Michael determined, if possible, to make Everope his bondman.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

"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 Lobingier, Elizabeth Erwin Miller