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

We must beware of attributing this doctrine of Neifty to the Norman Conquest, which merely supplied names; in definiteness and cruelty nothing could exceed the practice of serfage under the Saxons.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick 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

The abundance of land tended to prevent the development of industry, and the little industry which did exist was prevented by serfage from collecting in the towns.

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