serfage

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My aim has been to represent serfage in its normal, ordinary forms rather than in its occasional monstrous manifestations.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir

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

In the time of serfage the proprietors clearly perceived these and similar advantages, and compelled their serfs to live together in large families.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir

In K�ln the craftsmen had been reduced to all but serfage, and the merchant of Brussels might box at his will the ears of "the man without heart or honour who lives by his toil."

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

A freeman might deliver himself to serfage by putting a leathern thong upon his neck.

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