| Nacy Thompson is a bondager, a farm laborer forced to live in virtual slavery, her life dictated by the cruel and barbaric whims of her masters. |
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| The life of a bondager was no rural idyll, but one of long hours and hard work born with patient dignity. |
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| A bondager was a female worker provided by an agricultural worker as a condition of his employment. |
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| Based on interviews with four women who worked in agriculture in Midlothain during the early twentieth century, this volume reveals the hard work of the bondager. |
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| Deals where struck whereby men provided a female worker, or bondager, to labor on demand for the employer in exchange for such things as the cottage rent. |
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| In addition, there was a flute solo and a specially choreographed bondager dance. |
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