serfage
Example Sentences
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Before proceeding to describe the Emancipation, it may be well to explain briefly how the Russian peasants became serfs, and what serfage in Russia really was.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
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
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
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
So long as serfage existed it was mere mockery to talk about re-organising Russia according to the latest results of political and social science.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
