Serfdom in example sentence

Now in our case we landlords under serfdom applied improved methods of agriculture: we introduced the winnowing machines and all sorts of tools, organized the carting of manure all by our authority, and the peasants at first resisted and afterwards copied us.

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The origin of the word robot dates back more than a thousand years to the era of serfdom in central Europe when servitude was the currency for rent.

Friedrich Hayek was wrong to argue that Keynesian social democracy is a slippery slope to serfdom.

In almost all other countries, even Czarist Russia, slavery and serfdom were ended by decree or legislation, without a four-year bloodletting.

Serfdom, indenture, slavery, and the caste system all served this end.

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