One who watches over or supervises bondmen or bondspeople; an overseer of unfree laborers.
From 'bond' (unfree person) plus 'minder' (one who watches or cares for), a relatively modern compound. The word reflects the supervisory hierarchy of feudal and plantation systems.
Bondminders were often themselves of low status, creating a middle tier of control—the tragedy of hierarchical oppression is that it makes victims into enforcers, forcing people to brutalize those beneath them to justify their own subordination.
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