When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage.
And he did so in 1837-8, just as the West Indies slaves were being released (technically freed in 1833, they were forced to serve an "apprenticeship" which effectively kept them in bondage till 1838).
Walker met free blacks there who would have helped her escape, but with three children still in bondage in North Carolina, and a promise of freedom from the Camerons, she was loath to run away.
Some were adventurers, some sought land and treasure, some escaped oppression and famines, and yes, some arrived in shackled bondage.
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With their amazing assistance, we were able recently to free some elephants from a life of brutal bondage in a logging camp in Cambodia.
The image that likely appears is of a tweed-clad office worker or an old-fashioned schoolmarm, or maybe a smoky-eyed fashion editor in all black and bondage heels.
In 2005, Benedict told cardinals gathered to elect a new pope in Rome that this moral framework was also a form of bondage, "a dictatorship of relativism which doesn't recognise anything for certain".
In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.
In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?
In 1992, the British designer Vivienne Westwood, who used to dress the Sex Pistols and once sold bondage gear out of a shop she ran with rock manager Malcolm McLaren, received an Order of the British Empire from the Queen.
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