bondwoman
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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
Ser'vius was the son of a bondwoman, who had been taken at the sacking of a town belonging to the Latins, and was born whilst his mother was a slave.
She turned the bondwoman and her child out of doors, and forbade her ever to return.
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Jacobs, Harriet Ann
Were I proved thrice a slave And waif of bondwomen, you still are noble.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Under green apple-boughs That never a storm will rouse, My lady hath her house Between two bowers; In either of the twain Red roses full of rain; She hath for bondwomen All kind of flowers.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Caine, Hall, Sir
They cannot take a step without becoming bondwomen: into what a slavery!
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
Then Ali ended suddenly his frantic dance, the bondwomen held their peace in an instant, and blank silence in the chamber followed the clamour of tongues.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir
