bondmen

There is no authority for the contention that colonization promoted emancipation when the records show that the majority of slaveholders who supported it had in mind the expatriation of the free Negroes who among the bondmen were a living testimony against slavery.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

In later days they made use of a class of men known as bondmen or villeins.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

They are clothed in velvet and camlet furred with grise, and we be vestured with poor cloth: they have their wines, spices and good bread, and we have the drawing out of the chaff [2] and drink water; they dwell in fair houses, and we have the pain and travail, rain and wind in the fields; and by that that cometh of our labours they keep and maintain their estates: we be called their bondmen, and without we do readily them service, we be beaten; and we have no sovereign to whom we may complain, nor that will hear us nor do us right.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

They are clothed in velvet and camlet furred with grise, and we be vestured with poor cloth: they have their wines, spices and good bread, and we have the drawing out of the chaff2 and drink water: they dwell in fair houses, and we have the pain and travail, rain and wind in the fields; and by that that cometh of our labours they keep and maintain their estates: we be called their bondmen, and without we do readily them service beaten; and we have no sovereign to whom we may complain, nor that will hear us nor do us right.

Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. How the Commons of England Rebelled against the Noblemen 1909

The translator's French text had 'le seigle, le retraict de la paille.' and drink water: they dwell in fair houses, and we have the pain and travail, rain and wind in the fields; and by that that cometh of our labours they keep and maintain their estates: we be called their bondmen, and without we do readily them service, we be beaten; and we have no sovereign to whom we may complain, nor that will hear us nor do us right.

The Chronicles of Froissart 1523

We are required to believe that, in one portion of the divine law, the right of the master to hold his slaves as "bondmen" is recognized, while another part of the same law denies the existence of such right.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

I scarcely need say, that the Hebrew words rendered "bondmen" and

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

I scarcely need say, that the Hebrew words rendered "bondmen" and

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

Another kind of bondmen they have, when a vile drudge being a poor labourer in another country doth choose of his own free will to be a bondman among them.

The Second Book. Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters 1909

They were, however, made "bondmen" to the sanctuary

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897