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 Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

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

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 Greene, John Richard

In K�ln the craftsmen had been reduced to all but serfage, and the merchant of Brussels might box at his will the ears of "the man without heart or honour who lives by his toil."

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

Of these the most important was serfage, which was not abolished till 1861.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir