What is "bondsmen"

Usage examples of "bondsmen".

We assets or slaves were called bondsmen, bondswomen, and pups or young.

There two cutfrees, castrated bondsmen, were the Bosses in name, but the grandmothers ruled.

On winter nights one of these old worthless bondsmen kept alive by the grandmothers' charity would begin to sing the word.

Often Geu and Ahas, the young bondsmen who had grown up with him, who always came to fetch me across, stayed with us while he talked to all of us about slavery and freedom and many other things.

That morning when my mother and I came, there were bondsmen guarding the compound with weapons made of farm tools.

I did not see any bondsmen living when they took me away in the morning.

Some of the bondsmen came across the ditch in the night and raped us because there was nothing to prevent them from it, no one to whom we were of any value.

More likely it’s some of those runaway bondsmen the taverner mentioned.

I’ve gotten used to a bit of company, especially company that can pay a smith better than the stinking bondsmen in this forest.

Finding colonists was no problem, because there were plenty of younger sons of noble lords willing to risk a move to gain land of their own, and plenty of bondsmen willing to go with them since they became free men once they left their bound land.

On Monday night, the eleventh day of May, in the thirty-third year of the State of West Virginia, the judge of the criminal court of Gullmore County, and the judge of the circuit court of Gullmore county were to meet together for the purpose of deciding two matters--one relating to the trial of Moseby Allen, the retiring sheriff, for embezzling funds of the county, amounting to thirty thousand dollars, and the other, an action pending in the circuit court, wherein the State of West Virginia, at the relation of Jacob Wade, was seeking to recover this sum from the bondsmen of Allen.

I have gone over the authorities, and there is no question about the matter, The bondsmen of Allen are not liable in this action.

His duties as sheriff had ceased, his official acts had all terminated, and there was no possible way whereby be could then perform an official act that would render his bondsmen liable.

At the peak of the heat a former Frisco Angel told me: "If I was fired from my job tomorrow and went back to riding with the Angels, I'd lose my driver's license within a month, be in and out of jail, go way in debt to bondsmen and be hounded by the cops until I left the area.

Getting locked up in a country town is bad enough if you're by yourself, but to have your wife or girl friend locked up in the same jail -- instead of back home to call lawyers and bondsmen -- is a kind of double jeopardy that the Angels have learned to avoid.