serfage
Example Sentences
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Tendency toward serfage in the Code of 1705.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, personal slavery, and praedial serfage.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
So serfage became still more difficult to be distinguished from slavery.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
They are naturally a kind people; but let one example show how serfage can transmute kindness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
