serfage

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Like all the greater revolutions of society, the advance from this mere serfage was a silent one; indeed its more galling instances of oppression seem to have slipped unconsciously away.

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

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

A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law which had become a tyranny, poured into the streets of the town.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom.

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

So serfage became still more difficult to be distinguished from slavery.

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