villeinage
Example Sentences
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The facts are all against them; these showing it a scheme of villeinage, more oppressive than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
By these provisions both villeinage or land-serfdom and the slavery of debtor classes to capital were to be prevented in the new nation.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
The ceorls tended to sink to the position known later as villeinage.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The Suppression of the Revolt.—The boy-king met the mob at Mile-End, and promised to abolish villeinage in England.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Through various grades of slavery, serfdom, villeinage, and through various organizations of castes and guilds, the industrial organization has been modified and developed up to the modern system.
From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by William Graham Sumner
