serfage

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There is nothing to prevent the successor of Alexander the Second from restoring the system of serfage, with all its concomitant horrors.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

They include also serfage, vassalage, villanage, peonage, and all other forms of compulsory service for the mere benefit or pleasure of others.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

She has abolished slavery, villenage, serfage, political aristocracy, asserted the equality of all men before the law, vindicated the sovereignty of the people, and established universal suffrage, complete social and territorial democracy.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

They revived Old-World objections, which, to one acquainted with the most every-day workings of serfage, were ridiculous.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

If we bear all this in mind, we may readily understand that in the time of serfage and maladministration a man could be guilty of very reprehensible practises without incurring social excommunication.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir