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Webster 1828 Edition


Bondservant

BOND'SERVANT

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Noun.
[bond and servant.] A slave; one who is subjected to the authority of another, or whose person and liberty are restrained.

Definition 2024


bondservant

bondservant

English

Noun

bondservant (plural bondservants)

  1. An indentured servant.
    • 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition:
      The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit.