A penance of seven years was imposed for perjury, with the additional penalty of setting free a bondsman or bondswoman.
In the preface to The Bondswoman's Son he confesses that he has sometimes wondered if he has incarnated different personalities.
It is possible for a woman to fulfil a bond and yet not be a bondswoman.
Still the laws of the Republic made woman practically the bondswoman of man.
In commemoration of the sacrifice by Abraham, according to the Koran, of Ishmael, child of his bondswoman.
