Serfs in a sentence

A landowner could punish his serfs at his discretion, and under Catherine the Great gained the ability to sentence his serfs to hard labour in Siberia, a punishment normally reserved for convicted criminals.

For example, serfs could apply to be freed if they were under illegal ownership, and non-nobles were not allowed to own serfs.

Rebels 14th-century rural scene of reeve directing serfs, from the Queen Mary Psalter Chroniclers primarily described the rebels as rural serfs, using broad, derogatory Latin terms such as serviles rustici, servile genus and rusticitas.

The ex serfs could only sell land to other peasants, not szlachta. 90% of the ex serfs in the empire who actually gained land after 1861 were in the 8 western provinces.

The serfs create value, the Financial Nobility is parasitic.

This brings home the reality of a conscripted political space in Imo, where the innermost intentions of the Governor is to erect an empire for himself and convert free citizens of the State to his conquered vassals and serfs.

Her great grandmother’s family, the Kamenskys, were the first to open a serf theatre in Russia: a unique cultural phenomenon starting in the 18th century when serfs would perform for aristocratic families in private theatres.

Israel should be given full support to end this immoral atrocity perpetuated in the name of Allah by the poor indoctrinated serfs of the Islamist authoritarians.

That is the very ingredient Northern leadership denied the people, especially the children of the poor, just so they could continue to use them as serfs.

When it comes to workers and renters becoming Serfs in this new feudal miss mush they remain silent.

By 1676, Nathaniel Bacon was able to recruit the serfs and African free men to suppress American Indians riot.

Fat White Family – Serfs Up!

Serfs, nobles, men, women, old and young—all took part in the “dancing plague” of Aachen.

To him we are nothing but conquered slaves and serfs who do not deserve to have a voice.

The rich like Al Gore love to get in their Jet Stream jets and lecture us poor serfs on how bad energy is so they raise the price so we conserve one way or another.

We have no kings, serfs or nobles.

What it all tells us once again is that we do not have a healthcare system in America we have an illness profit system, and we tolerate it year after year like submissive serfs.

After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian state was compelled to take into account public opinion, but the government failed to gain the public's support.

Although the peasants were no longer tied to the same land as serfs had been, the old paternalistic relationship in East Prussia lasted into the 20th century.

An important correlation between the three clusters is that the economic standing of serfs was declining.