bond servant

American  

Or bond-servant

noun

1. a person who serves in bondage; slave.

2. a person bound to service without wages.

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Etymology

Origin of bond servant

First recorded in 1525–35

Example Sentences

Partly because of the nature of the vice-presidency, mostly because of the President's approach to subordinates, the once irrepressible Humphrey may have become a bond servant of Lyndon Johnson.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.

From Time Magazine Archive

You are rich, with position and friends of influence, while I at best am but a merchant skipper, in truth a bond servant, penniless and disgraced.

From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Parrish, Randall

He was a bond servant; he was permitted to compound his servitude by a daily payment; he was allowed to work partly for himself and partly for the crown, at the same moment.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John

The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.

From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Blatch, Harriot Stanton