serfage

Example Sentences

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Rural serfage was maintained, which proves that the revolution had been directed by the burghers, and for their own profit.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

Tendency toward serfage in the Code of 1705.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William

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

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 Durand, John

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