serfage

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Tendency toward serfage in the Code of 1705.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William

They were naturally a kind people; but let one example show how serfage can transmute kindness.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Let every species of serfage and of intermediary lien between the sovereign and the lowest class of people be abolished.

From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John

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

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)