A person who is bound in servitude or obligated through bondage, particularly in historical or legal contexts.
From bondage + -er suffix (meaning 'one who'). Bondage itself comes from Old Norse band meaning 'band' or 'bond,' with the -age suffix indicating a condition or state.
The word bondager appears most in American slavery documents and Scottish legal texts—it's a historical term that reminds us that the language of rights and freedoms evolved precisely because these concepts were once denied.
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