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
And what if I find that I am the son of some bondwoman.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
Einar remembered her, for she had been his bondwoman for two summers.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
This second class of servants were called bondmen and bondwomen.
From Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster
The bondwomen could find no-way to comfort her.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
In the Douay it is, 'If a man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.'
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
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
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 Sir Hall Caine
