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
“We can’t repress our astonishment,” said a joint statement issued by the local branches of two major farmers’ organizations — the Korean Peasants League and the Korean Women Peasants Association.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Peasants were obliged to produce more than they consumed so that they could build up reserves.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
