serfs
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Serfs were no longer protected from arrest by their employers when they committed crimes.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Fat White Family’s 2019 album Serfs Up! ruminates on the middle-class trappings sold to us by the ideology of social mobility.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2020
The Serfs ploughed and planted endlessly and there was a lot of chatter about strip farming and tithes.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
Serfs lived in crowded cottages, close to their neighbors.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Serfs they were now in these old fastnesses of theirs to the English folk of the Lindiswaras, who had won their land and called it after their own name, Lindsey.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)