vassalage

Example Sentences

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While some Black Americans used the word “feudal,” others used related terms harkening back to the medieval world, including “vassalage,” “serfdom” and “Dark Age.”

From Salon

"He would add," Madison wrote, "that domestic slavery is the most prominent feature in the aristocratic countenance of the proposed Constitution. The vassalage of the poor has ever been the favorite offspring of aristocracy."

From Salon

As Johnson would say, it will be vassalage.

From The Guardian

Mr Gill said the prime minister had voted twice against Mrs May's deal and Mr Johnson had called that agreement "vassalage".

From BBC

The spread of slavery threatened to expand the number of its immediate victims but also threatened to reduce everyone else to political vassalage, ruled by the slaveholders and their adjunct classes.

From Salon