bondservant

English

Etymology

bond +‎ servant

Noun

bondservant (plural bondservants)

1. An indentured servant.
   • 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition‎^[1]:

     The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit.