serfage

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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

Tendency toward serfage in the Code of 1705.

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

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

Would not every dog-brother of them be better at home, working his serfage peaceably for his land?

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

If serfage did not create that moral apathy and intellectual lethargy which formed, as it were, the atmosphere of Russian provincial life, it did much at least to preserve it.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir