peasants
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Wat Tyler led the Peasants Revolt some 150 years later to get a better deal for farm laborers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Peasants burned châteaux and records of the dues they owed local nobles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Among his hundreds of publications are the monographs “Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French” and “Vietnamese Women in Society and Revolution: The French Colonial Period.”
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022
Shin Ji Youn, an official at the Korean Women Peasants Association, said the farmers’ groups asked Hongseong to respond to their requests by Aug. 10.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Peasants thus had to work periodically for the empire as farmers, herders, weavers, masons, artisans, miners, or soldiers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
