villeinage
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Among the innovations of modern times, following "the decay of villeinage," has been the creation of a new system of slavery.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
The Suppression of the Revolt.—The boy-king met the mob at Mile-End, and promised to abolish villeinage in England.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The facts are all against them; these showing it a scheme of villeinage, more oppressive than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
And the pretence at proselytising, with its mongrel mixture of Christianity and superstition, did not make this Transatlantic villeinage a whit less irksome to endure.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
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