bond-servants

He willingly paid a liberal salary for the services of a well educated governess, and bought everything his children required for their mental improvement; but luxuries were as foreign to his own abode as to the cabins of his bond-servants.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

Ishmael his son, who was the only individual beside himself, on whom he had a right to impose it, except the bond-servants bought of the stranger with his money, and their children born in his house.

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

Great was his astonishment when, at the threshold of the red ants 'dwelling, he saw numbers of black ants come forward to receive the young captives and to welcome them -- children of their own race, doomed to be bond-servants in

The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

The value that was set upon the bond-servants in the West Indies, is curiously exemplified in the following anecdote: --

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 Various

The next year, 1835, Douglass was hired out to a Mr. William Freeland, who lived near St. Michael's, a gentleman who did not forget justice or humanity, so far as they were consistent with slavery, even in dealing with bond-servants.

Frederick Douglass 1932

Their exhortations, in fact, kept before the Israelites a high social ideal; and by recalling the ancient law that bond-servants should be freed every seventh year, and that loans in kind and money should be gratuitous, the growth of the slave-cultivation of Punic, Greek, and Roman civilization was restrained, and Palestine preserved as a land of Jewish peasant proprietors.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Hence, in the second place, the Israelites are bidden to remember that they were once slaves in Egypt, and should therefore in grateful remembrance of their deliverance rest themselves and allow their bond-servants to rest (Deut., v, 14-15).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Those who so defined us made us bond-servants of matter and force from birth to death though they drew back a little from the consequences of their own creeds and sought to save a place for moral freedom and responsibility and a defensible altruism.

Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912

The people of Missouri and other neighbouring slave-states knew that it would be difficult, with a free-state adjoining them, to hold their bond-servants in security.

Frederick Douglass 1906

Those of their race who had come here in colonial days were for the most part only imported bond-servants and criminals.

XIII. The Growth of the Commercial and Democratic City. 1821-1860. 1906