serfdom in the PONS Dictionary

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The main changes concentrated on attempts to remove traditional social inequalities, such as sexism, ethnocentrism, and serfdom.
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As discussed and linked earlier, these include peasantry, serfdom, slavery, indentured servitude, wage slavery, or domestic servitude.
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After the abolition of serfdom, the city has grown significantly in numbers and territory; there were large-scale production enterprises.
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Peter tightened serfdom by banning serfs from volunteering for military service and thus escaping serfdom.
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He promised constitutional reforms and a desperately needed reform of serfdom but made no concrete proposals and nothing happened.
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Serfdom is an institution that has always been commonplace for human society; however, it has not always been of the same nature.
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The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
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Their lives and bodies, along with all that they had, belonged to the lord at the castle, an arrangement known as serfdom.
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Children of serfs were born into serfdom and worked the same land that their parents had.
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This edict began the process of abolishing serfdom and its hereditary character.
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