bondwoman

The bondwoman in question was Elizabeth, or Bett for short, or sometimes even Mum Bett.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2015

In this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow.

From Time Magazine Archive

This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman, and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Robert Cooper

Because I was such a bondwoman, as I told you.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

The institution of villeinage is last mentioned in a commission of Queen Elizabeth, 1574, directing Lord Burleigh and others in certain counties to compound with all such bondmen or bondwomen for their manumission and freedom.

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not even with you trespasses of your own against the Lord your God?

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

So he awarded to Socht the price of seven bondwomen as blood-fine for the slaying of Angus, and restitution of the sword to Socht.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid

The sting of this imposition continued to rankle in my heart so long as we were the bondwomen of this particular man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

So swift had this change been that the bondwomen had not seen it, and they were shouting "Hallelujah!" with one voice, thinking only that she who had been dead to them was alive again.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine