serfage
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They revived Old World objections, which, to one acquainted with the most every-day workings of serfage, were ridiculous.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
There is nothing to prevent the successor of Alexander the Second from restoring the system of serfage, with all its concomitant horrors.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law which had become a tyranny, poured into the streets of the town.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
She has abolished slavery, villenage, serfage, political aristocracy, asserted the equality of all men before the law, vindicated the sovereignty of the people, and established universal suffrage, complete social and territorial democracy.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson
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 John Richard Greene
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