Definition of bondman in US English:
bondman
noun ˈbɑn(d)mənˈbän(d)mənˈbɑn(d)mən
archaic A serf; a slave.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution: Atchison owned at most one bondman.
- Every man who strives to become a burgess of this town shall first be examined under oath upon a Book that he is no bondman, but free-born and of free status.
- And every bondman and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.
- Although such laws were most prevalent in the South, the northern colonies also enacted statutes restricting the lives of bondmen and bondwomen.