[f. BOND a. + SLAVE.] A more emphatic term for slave or bondman.
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 79. We were … very bondesslaues of the deuill.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 440. Now they, whome the Lorde deliuereth, are bonslaues.
1611. Bible, 1 Macc. ii. 11. Of a free-woman shee is become a bondslaue.
1671. Milton, Samson, 38. Put to the labour of a beast, debased Lower than bondslave!
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., II. vi. 97. We are sold for bondslaves.
Hence Bond slavery.
1835. Marryat, Olla Podr., xxiv. So are his children given in bond slavery to his debtor.
