serfage

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So serfage became still more difficult to be distinguished from slavery.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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)

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 Vinogradoff, Paul

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

They revived Old-World objections, which, to one acquainted with the most every-day workings of serfage, were ridiculous.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various