bondwoman
Woman in servitude
A bondwoman is a woman held in slavery or servitude.
The term appears in historical and biblical contexts: The bondwoman and her son were cast out.
Bondwoman is archaic; enslaved woman is now preferred in historical writing.
Also bondmaid.
Owned human, forced laborer
- chattelMovable personal property
- thrallOne held captive
- enslavedMade someone's property
- captiveOne held by force
servant · handmaid · concubine · manumission · emancipation · abolitionist · plantation · overseer
Female personal attendant
- HagarSarah's Egyptian servant
- concubineSecondary female partner
- patriarchMale head of family
- SarahFemale name, Hebrew origin
Abraham · maidservant · Ishmael · inheritance · covenant · freewoman · Galatians · allegory
Formal binding contract
- peonageDebt-based forced labor
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- vassalageSubordination to a lord
- fiefdomFeudal territory under lord
apprenticeship · colonialism · reconstruction · sharecropper · yeomanry · indentured · domestic · household
Forcing into submission
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- dominationSupreme authority held
captivity · enslavement · subjection · degradation · oppression · yoke · powerlessness · disempowerment
slave
Owned human, forced laborer
captive · servant · handmaid · concubine · manumission · emancipation · abolitionist · plantation · overseer · fugitive
handmaid
Female personal attendant
Sarah · Abraham · maidservant · Ishmael · inheritance · covenant · freewoman · Galatians · allegory
indenture
Formal binding contract
fiefdom · apprenticeship · colonialism · reconstruction · sharecropper · yeomanry · indentured · domestic · household · liege
subjugation
Forcing into submission
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
domination · captivity · enslavement · subjection · degradation · oppression · yoke · powerlessness · disempowerment · victimization
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- medieval workersserf, peasant, villein, thrall, freeman
- unfree laborersslave, chattel slave, bondswoman, serf, thrall
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- domestic servantsmaid, housemaid, chambermaid, parlormaid, parlor maid
bondwomanfreewoman
Emancipated female person
freedwoman · mistress · citizen · noblewoman · gentlewoman
bondwomanmistress
Illicit female lover
slaveholder · slave owner · enslaver · taskmistress · lady of the house
woman, bond, bound, bonds, binder, binding, bonded, unbind, womanhood