serfage
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Long after serfage had been legalised in that region by Catherine II., the great proprietors, such as Rumyantsef, Razumofski, Bezborodko, continued to attract to their estates the peasants of the smaller proprietors.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Like all the greater revolutions of society, the advance from this mere serfage was a silent one; indeed its more galling instances of oppression seem to have slipped unconsciously away.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
Let every species of serfage and of intermediary lien between the sovereign and the lowest class of people be abolished.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by John Durand
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
A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law, poured into the streets of the town.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
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