serfage

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Christianity finding men in serfage and degraded all over the earth, had arisen on the fall of the Roman Empire, like a mighty vengeance, though under the aspect of a resignation.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.

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

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)

Cancel charters of manumission as the council might, serfage was henceforth a doomed and perishing thing.

From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard

The rural tenants found themselves in a mesh of legal claims—old services revived, old dues enforced, endless suits in the King's courts grinding them again to serfage.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard