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Unlike slaves, serf families could not be broken up, but they could be sold as a group with the land to which they were attached.serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
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In return for their labor, serfs were entitled to protection, justice, and the right to use land to feed themselves.
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"Yes, my squalid little serf," I said, and fluttered my hands in royal dispensation.† (source)
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In the feudal society of the Middle Ages, it was between feudal lord and serf; later on, between aristocrat and citizen.† (source)
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At first he'd been a little standoffish—as if he were a lord and I were a serf, Jones thought—until he'd seen how the skipper treated him.† (source)
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The serf wore the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.† (source)
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There's a fancy little guardhouse on the island, like something the kings and queens in history would have built to keep out the serfs, or the Vandals, or whoever.† (source)
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I can neither exist without work nor work as a serf.† (source)
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Russia's long-suffering women, our second serfdom, have been elevated to the status of equals.† (source)
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When the lord of the manor met his assembled serfs they were always intoxicated with happiness that they could neither justify, nor explain, nor prolong in his absence.† (source)
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The drawers he wore were baggy and dirty and he did indeed look like some sad and ill used serf or worse.† (source)
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Whatever it was called-feudalism and serfdom or capitalism and industrial workers, it was unnatural and unjust.† (source)
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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.† (source)
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The old serf laughed.† (source)
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But then the business of the day got under way, and in my harassed inability to keep up, it was like a double-quick-time stamping or dancing; angry grim waltz in which the clutched partners were out to wear one another down; or solo clog or tarantella of the hopping mad; or the limper sway of the almost gone from consciousness; the decorous sevillanas of the stiff whose faces didn't betray how their heels were slamming; the epidemic kick of German serfdom; the squatting kazatsky; the hesitation-step of adolescence; the Charleston.† (source)
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That man freed his serfs of his own free will.† (source)
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