Let coward vassals sneak From freedom's battle still, Poltroons that dare not speak But as their priests may will; Come on, come on, and joined be we To make the fettered bondman free.
That hurl'd into the grave Oppression's bloody band; Come on, come on, and joined be we To make the fettered bondman free.
From the crack of the rifle and baying of hound, Takes the poor panting bondman his flight; His couch through the day is the cold damp ground, But northward he runs through the night.
From its slumbers, long and deep; And the church of God is waking, Never, never more to sleep, While a bondman In his chains remains to weep.
Must the groans of your bondman still torture the ear?
Loose every hard burden--break off every chain-- Restore to the bondman his freedom again.
Judgment, mercy, law, humanity, God and Christianity, are all forgotten in the hasty and insane desire to have the wretched bondman pushed out of the world.
The proslavery construction renders the permission absurd, because in the first place it would be impossible for any one man literally to be a bondman forever, unless servitude could be continued in heaven or hell.
And the bondman abideth not in the house for ever; the Son abideth for ever" (John viii.
In Christ Jesus there is no Jew or Greek; there is no bondman or freeman; there is no male and female.
Henceforth he was the bondman of grace, the celebrant of grace.
Those dumb wounds proclaim him thebondman of the Crucified.
Of all his labors no trace remains Save the bondman lifting his hands in chains.
His loathly length the unsexed bondmanbowed "On my head be it!
Although uttered in a whisper, they had a wondrous ring about them, and a wide-awake bondman instantly grasped their meaning.
Just a little while since the American flag to the flying bondman was an ensign of bondage; now it has become a symbol of protection and freedom.
Every bondman who was old enough to realize the nature and import of the change felt a great anxiety to learn what the will of their old mistress said, whether she had actually freed them or not.
Over a territory large enough to make many realms, he has seen hopeless toil supplanted by compensated industry; and where the bondman dragged his chain, there freedom is established for ever.
He always exhibited the same devotion and manly daring in the cause of the flying bondman that inspired his youthful ardor in behalf of freedom.
I want you all to come to this land of Liberty where the bondman can be free.
Now having known the scourge and the fetters, I may speak to the bondman as a brother.
It is not needful to tell all that befell me as a bondman among the Moors of Barbary.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
If the proclamation had been immediately operative, and had liberated every bondman in the jurisdiction to which it applied, it would have left over a million slaves in actual thraldom.
In those States, the bondman is disfranchised, and for the most part so are we.
Let the bondman but be assured that he can find the same freedom South that there is in the North; the same liberty in Mexico, as in Canada, and he will prefer going South to going North.
Does he in principle require us to sympathize with the bondman as another self; and permit us in practice to leave him unpitied and unhelped in the hands of the oppressor?
I will say to the man, give thou sight to these eyes and I am thy bondman from henceforth and forever.
It is always important to decide whether a bondman is in the seisin of his lord or not, and the chief means to show it is to trace his connexion with the territorial lordship.
Any agreement with a bondman led to a forfeiture of the lord's rights.
That is, if the defendant pleaded in bar of an action that the plaintiff was his bondman he generally said, I am not bound to answer A, because he is my villain and I am seised of him as of my villain as regardant to my manor of C.
It is true that, both in theory and in practice, it was held that whatever was acquired by the bondman was acquired by the lord.
If the lord has not done so for any reason, for want of time, or carelessness, or because he did not choose to do so, the bondman is as good as the owner in respect of third persons.
I have had occasion to notice the implied manumission which followed from a donation of land to a bondman and his heirs, which in process of time was extended to all contracts and concords between a lord and his serf.
In one case the deed simply binds the lord as to a particular person, in the other it binds him in perpetuity; and in this latter case, as there ought not to be any heirs of a bondman but the lord, bondage is annihilated by the deed.
Even against his lord the bondman had some standing ground for a civil action.
The bondman could not buy anything but with his lord's money, as he had no money or chattels of his own[79].
When the term occurs in connexion with villainage it serves to show that a person was not only a bondman born, but actually living in the power of his lord, and not in a state of liberty.
And so soon as you have safely stored all your stuff indoors, I bid you put your bondman out of doors and look out for a servant-girl with no children;--for a servant with a child to nurse is troublesome.
His bondman rose from the ground in a fury not to be described.
It sent his patroness to London, exactly when with a doubting heart, Sinson was preparing to visit her in Cornwall, and thus enabled him to hold down his bondman Everope, with one hand, while with the other he preferred his audacious suit.
We read that 'every bondman and every freeman' will see the sign of the Son of Man.
But it is wrong," said I, "to hold property in a human being, whether the bondman be in favor of it or not.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
