7 sentences with 'serfs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word serfs and other words derived from it.
• « Peasants in Egypt were tied to the land on which they lived and were therefore serfs rather than free peasants. »
• « By then, however, the legal and social conditions of farmers had degenerated to the point where they were essentially serfs (known as colonists): unfree rural labourers, hardly better than slaves themselves. »
• « Peasants bore the brunt of Diocletian's reforms; most of the remaining independent farmers became serfs, one step above slaves. »
• « Although most peasants never left the area where they were born, many migrated to the nearest towns and cities and tried to make a life there; serfs (unfree peasants) who came to a village and stayed a year and a day were even legally freed from having to return to the farm. »
• « The system of land ownership and the traditional rights enjoyed not only by feudal lords, but also by serfs and freemen who lived under the lords, is called "manor", the rural political and economic system of the early Middle Ages as a whole. »
• « Native Americans were called "justly conquered" and were enslaved or conscripted as serfs in the service of Spanish colonial masters. »
• « The general pattern in the East was that nobles answered to increasingly powerful kings or emperors, but were themselves the "absolute" rulers of their own states over their serfs. »