Sentence examples for bondman from inspiring English sources

"It is enough for me," he explained in justifying his refusal to participate in radical egalitarian politics, "that every yoke is broken, and every bondman set free".

The Times review concluded, "when slavery has become a surprise and a horror to everyone in the land; when the Proclamation of President Lincoln has passed into history as a splendid trophy of a sanguinary war; when the gratitude of a people that no longer knows a bondman reverts to the heroes that made them glorious, then will such a canvas be gazed upon with respectful admiration".

When, shortly after, that same Antipholus of Syracuse appears in Ephesus searching for his twin, also named Antipholus, who was lost in a shipwreck many years earlier, it doesn't take long before he and his bondman Dromio, also a twin, are mistaken for their Ephesian counterparts.

Douglass's account became a classic in American literature as well as a primary source about slavery from the bondman's viewpoint.

The debt was paid by the generation of Americans involved with slavery, as so painfully and eloquently stated by President Lincoln in the Second Inaugural when he referred to this "terrible war" as one that perhaps had been willed by God to continue, "until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk".

Much of the North's economic prosperity derived from what Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, called "the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil".

Wast thou called, being a bondman?

care not for it…For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord.

Political stability enabled these territories to recover from the depredations of the Norman period, and the rulers sought to increase the resources of their demesne lands both by exploiting the labour services of bondmen and by providing some bondmen with more favourable tenurial conditions as an incentive to the colonization of marginal lands.

Below the lord and the free tenants came the villeins, serfs, or bondmen, each holding a hut or small dwelling, a fixed number of acre strips, and a share of the meadow and of the profits of the waste.

You can see that snobbish streak in his scorn for his childhood neighbour in Trinidad, Matthew Bondman, as "an awful character, so crude and vulgar in every aspect of his life," and yet "with a bat in his hand he was all grace and style".