| 单词 | serfdom |
| 例句 | In Russia, serfdom only finally ended in 1861, two years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It is sign of a world going lopsided back to the serfdom days again. The 20 Most Delicious Things at Mercado Little Spain 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “Four hundred years of serfdom — it’s just the mentality here,” Mr. Yevgrafov says. In Post-Soviet World: Ordinary 2011-03-21T16:59:00Z Back in the Middle Ages, artisans and craftsmen pulled themselves out of serfdom through the establishment of guilds, which gave a kind of professional stamp of approval to solve the artist-riddle. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z And is his a past – serfdom, subservience, deference – we should be nostalgic for? Before I Sleep 2010-05-07T20:35:00Z She chose not to take a progressive stance on serfdom, and when a cabinet maker tried to lecture her on the matter, she threw him out, Jaques says. 10 things you may not know about Catherine the Great 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest losers were the traditional landowning aristocracy, who were undermined by economic change, the abolition of serfdom, the advent of elected legislatures and the commercial feats of enterprising bankers and businessmen. The best of times 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It was first used to refer to automatons by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek, who repurposed a word that had referred to a system of indentured servitude or serfdom. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s an outback western, set in 1920s Northern Territory, a tale of racism and brutality among the “blackfellas” and “whitefellas”, and the injustice and serfdom suffered by indigenous Australians. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z China says its intervention ended a "backward feudal serfdom", and denied wrongdoing. China's Xi calls for 'new socialist Tibet' - Xinhua 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The institution of serfdom was cemented in the midst of the chaos of the seventeenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Slavery continued into the second half of the nineteenth century in the United States and Brazil, as did serfdom in Russia. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The only way to end this impoverishing of the American people is to stop the inflation that causes this modern-day serfdom. You’ll be poor and like it 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z China says its intervention ended "backward feudal serfdom" and denied wrongdoing. China denounces U.S. Congress for hosting Tibet's leader-in-exile 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z China denies wrongdoing there and says its intervention ended "backward feudal serfdom." Exiled leader tells US Congress Tibet faces 'slow death' under China 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The officers came to see serfdom as both fundamentally immoral and as totally incompatible with any hope of progress for Russia. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Should other countries in which slavery or serfdom existed do the same? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z It is an epic saga of Judah Ben-Hur, the Jewish prince banished to Roman serfdom who after many vicissitudes returns to his people and is converted to Christianity. How to watch every best picture winner from 1950 through 1959 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “They kind of lock that person to this new flavor of serfdom where it’s, you might be decently paid, you’ve got access to it, but it will never be yours,” he said. Farmland Values Hit Record Highs, Pricing Out Farmers 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z This nation endured 250 years of Mongol domination, followed by serfdom under the tsars and decades of life without freedom under the communists. In his own words: Gorbachev’s essays in The Times. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In essence, the already-existing status of serfdom on Prussian lands was made permanent. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In some parts of the Russian empire, serfdom lingered on for a few more decades. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z How did other types of servitude, such as European serfdom, compare to slavery? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Slavery had existed for millennia in ways akin to medieval serfdom. Review | The Civil War’s financial battles 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Surviving peasants escaped serfdom and gained land through a combination of rental and individual or common ownership. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In its most extreme manifestations, serfdom was essentially the same thing as slavery. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z What was a negative result of the abolition of Russian serfdom? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Planters operated within a larger capitalist society, but the labor system they used to produce goods—that is, slavery—was similar to systems that existed before capitalism, such as feudalism and serfdom. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z For example, he believed that serfdom was wrong, but he did nothing to end it since he needed the support of wealthy landowners. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Slavery had been the fundamental economic institution of the ancient world, but it had given way to serfdom in northern Europe without disappearing from the Mediterranean basin. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 1524, an enormous peasant uprising occurred across Germany, inspired by this interpretation of Lutheranism and demanding a reduction in feudal dues and duties, the end of serfdom, and greater justice from feudal lords. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In England, for example, around half the population was legally tied to the land in serfdom, forced to labor for their local landlord. Opinion | In Medieval Europe, a Pandemic Changed Work Forever. Can It Happen Again? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z China denies wrongdoing in Tibet and says its intervention ended "backward feudal serfdom". U.S. names Tibet coordinator, drawing warning from China 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The abolition of serfdom, however, went only halfway. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z High Commissioner for Human Rights says contemporary forms of slavery include traditional slavery, forced labor, debt bondage, serfdom, children working in slavery or slavery-like conditions, domestic servitude, sexual slavery and servile forms of marriage. UN expert: Contemporary forms of slavery exist in Sri Lanka 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Thus, the tsarist state instituted serfdom in 1649 across the board, formalizing what was already a widespread institution. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He urged them to avoid the tendency to neglect the subject and instead help students escape their “serf-like communities” within high-tech society, just as sharecroppers earlier sought release from the serfdom of the plantation. Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights leader who saw math as road to equality, dies at 86 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Those who forgo or simply can’t afford it are essentially consigning themselves to economic serfdom. Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Catherine had previously favored an end to serfdom. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Working for a paycheck had evolved from indentured servitude and serfdom, he said. Preaching Equality, Start-Up Didn’t Practice It With Employees 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z But with that word came new things to fear, such as empires, conquering armies, tyrants, taxes, serfdom, slavery, periodic famines due to crop failure and occasional plagues aggravated by urban crowding. Perspective | How to cope in an anxious age: Try Hitchcock, Munch and Poe 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In late medieval Eastern Europe, from Prussia and Poland to Russia, nobles colluded to impose serfdom on their peasantries to lock down a depleted labor force. Opinion | Why the Wealthy Fear Pandemics 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Ultimately, it helped end serfdom in parts of Europe. Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America? 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z By the 1820s, many Russians believed that serfdom must end. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We've heard Bernie's stump speech, with its emphasis on the fossil fuel, pharmaceutical and other industries that are the culprits of our economic serfdom. Bernie Sanders has one shot: He must make the case that Joe Biden is not "electable" 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “Almost every law and method . . . was employed by the legislatures to reduce the Negroes to serfdom,” W.E.B. Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’ 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z In this respect, we are on the road back to serfdom. Opinion | How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z But an agricultural class reduced to serfdom is exactly the kind of stagnant arrangement that capitalism chafes against. How the South Won the Civil War 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z In his most radical reform, Joseph abolished serfdom and ordered that peasants be paid for their labor with cash. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It says its rule there ended serfdom and brought prosperity to what was a backward region, and that it fully respects the rights of the people. Tibetans in exile struggle to see beyond Dalai Lama 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z That 400,000 of them have to continue to work without pay, because they are deemed essential, reduces them to a form of serfdom which really amounts to a massive abuse of human rights. The case for a national general strike protesting Trump's heartless shutdown 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “They opposed all forms of free labor—not just slavery but serfdom, peonage, unpaid apprenticeship,” she said, peering at some undergraduates in front. The Philosopher Redefining Equality 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z One student noted that Russia abolished serfdom in 1861, the same year that the war which ended slavery in the United States began. The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In 1524, German peasants, excited by reformers’ talk of Christian freedom, demanded an end to serfdom. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would be a good name for this law? Perhaps you’d prefer the serf law? Are you building a new slavery or new serfdom?” Hungary Creates New Court System, Cementing Leader’s Control of Judiciary 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But he achieved this only by dragooning hundreds of thousands of peasants into working on the project — and reduced many of them to serfdom; he constructed beautiful palaces on the bones of his poorest people. Perspective | Five myths about the Romanovs 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Now do you see what Friedrich Hayek meant when he said that socialism puts a society on the road to serfdom? Opinion | Our socialist president 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Even highway tolls bring out cries that we’re on the road to serfdom. Ideal of congestion pricing faces real-life roadblocks in Seattle 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Unrestrained markets create the road to serfdom-- in reality, democracy is a form of redress. Sermons and Shouted Insults: How Erdogan Keeps Turkey Spellbound 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z In the days of serfdom, it was used in the sense of “master.” Putin’s reelection takes him one step closer to becoming Russian leader for life 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The difference is that the corporate class is not forcing their employees into serfdom for personal gain. Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad. Here’s Proof. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z And the powerful one has a team scheming 24/7 about how to reduce them to further penury and serfdom. How I see Britain: photographs that define the country 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s been a while since I’ve brushed up on Marxist economics, but to me that sounds more like a transparent, well-functioning market economy than a “silent road to serfdom.” Is Indexing Worse Than Marxism? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Progressives are flogging California’s plan as a prototype, and such paragons of fiscal rectitude as Illinois, Oregon, Connecticut and Maryland are following its road to retirement serfdom. California Has an IRA for You 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Cash served as Lincoln’s minister to Russia, where he witnessed the Tsar’s edict of emancipation, which liberated 23 million people from serfdom. What's in a Name: Meet the Original Cassius Clay 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Bernie’s Way paves the same road to serfdom that socialism does everywhere. What’s Socialism, Dad? 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The problem, say protesters, is that the jobs have become a form of serfdom: grim conditions – long hours, frenetic pace, management intimidation – and shrivelled wages. Juárez: factory workers are protesting for their rights with an ‘Occupy-style’ sit-in 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Or, as he phrases it, “The Democrats are taking us down the road to serfdom at 100 miles an hour, and the Republicans are at 70 miles an hour.” Capitalist puritans: The Koch brothers are pushing pure economic liberty as the only road to true prosperity — to the detriment of all but the rich 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Professor North found that classical theory could not account for the fact that wages rose in Western Europe after that scourge but not in Eastern Europe, much of which remained in serfdom. Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate Economist, Dies at 95 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The chairman of the Constitutional Court regrets the passing of serfdom. Searching for the roots of Russia’s aggression 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z This installed a uniquely unequal pattern of landholding, sustained by serfdom and slavery. Latin America’s rural dream 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z China says that it liberated the Tibetan people from “theocratic feudal serfdom.” Rapprochement with the Dalai Lama? No way, says China. 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z When Obama proposes this very same approach it was quickly tagged by Republicans as "Obamacare," a step on the road to serfdom. Conservatives in Name Only 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z China rejects such criticism, saying its rule ended serfdom in Tibet and brought development to a backward, poverty-stricken region. China police fire on Tibetans after self-immolations: rights group 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z He continued to believe that the institution of serfdom was profoundly immoral, and to the end of his life he detested the landed aristocracy. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Many believe our country is on the road to serfdom as government spending swallows the nation’s economic output. Cut the Deficit, Not the Government, to Reduce the Debt 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z We must want security above all else now, the argument goes, because we’ve seen how rare it is—and if getting it means suffering corporate serfdom, then so be it. Why Millennials Won't Become Corporate Serfs 2013-11-07T18:32:00Z China rejects such criticism, saying its rule ended serfdom and brought development to a backward, poverty-struck region, but Tibet remains tightly controlled and foreign journalists are largely banned from visiting. Chinese security forces shoot at Tibetan protesters: rights group 2013-10-08T14:25:30Z For most people on these contracts, this is 21st Century serfdom. Internet 'trolls' make headlines 2013-08-07T05:08:27Z What others saw as the state's role in elevating the condition of the people, she saw as the insidious road to serfdom. Margaret Thatcher – a strong leader, but a resolute failure by any other measure 2013-04-18T12:15:48Z On top of his military ambitions, he abolished serfdom and established the French civil code; yet he failed to disseminate his ideas. Can French social enterprise succeed globally? 2013-02-19T08:00:03Z Alistair Darling of the Better Together unionist group said independence was "not freedom but more like serfdom". Referendum chiefs put their cases 2012-10-16T09:29:37Z The Republicans say that Mr Obama is leading America into socialised serfdom; the Democrats retort that Mr Romney would restore the conditions that caused the recession. Lexington: Declinism resurgent 2012-05-10T15:06:15Z The reduction to serfdom of the Bohemian peasantry, in 1487, may be regarded as the final result of the overthrow of the Taborites. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Comparative serfdom, continued through several generations, had eliminated from his blood every single corpuscle of independence. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z It was the principle of rural serfdom applied to social functions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Abolish applies particularly to things of a permanent nature, such as institutions, usages, customs, etc.; as, to abolish monopolies, serfdom, slavery. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z We have grown fat on serfdom, so we must give our blood to undo it, to bring about the reign of liberty. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Feudalism, serfdom, slavery,—all were forms of government. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z He wrote with fervor against the remnants of serfdom, and defended the rights of the serfs in the Jura against their monastic oppressors. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z The people were reduced by poverty and misery to the most degraded conditions of serfdom and slavery. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z Indeed, social development is a movement from serfdom to freedom, and the village community of its early stages is connected not with freedom, but with serfdom. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The stories he often told young Boulatoff mostly related to the days of serfdom, which had been abolished when Pavel was a boy of five. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Depend upon it, that till the Catholics are emancipated from their serfdom there can be no real peace for Ireland.' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z But the fact remains that—with a few glorious exceptions—the great mass of your people have preferred a new serfdom to the trouble of earning Liberty. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z He is born into a condition of intellectual serfdom; the mind dares not to wander by a hair's breadth from the narrow estate of thought on which it is born. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z I may be allowed to start a conjecture which will find some support in a later chapter, when we come to speak about the treatment of freedom and serfdom in manorial documents. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z To say that money does not create bondage, is the same as to have asserted, fifty years ago, that serfdom did not create slavery. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z These have, in many places, constituted an intermediate step between serfdom and the free wage-system. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z The peasants who worked on the estate were all Poles; the relations between them and their employer smacked strongly of serfdom. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z At all events, while the ceorl tasted all the bitterness of his serfdom, the adjudged felon in other stations was able to obtain much leniency. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z As soon as services get commuted for money rents, it becomes impossible to retain the labouring people in serfdom. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Twenty-five years ago it sufficed to destroy the snare which justified serfdom, and public opinion changed its attitude as to what is praiseworthy, and what is shameful, and life changed. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Some of these were: Every congregation is to be permitted to choose its own pastor; serfdom is to be abolished. Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history 2012-01-12T03:00:13.267Z No reference to such a scattering and serfdom of the Egyptians is mentioned anywhere else. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Tourgenef voiced the philosophic resignation and scepticism of the educated Russian and the evils of serfdom. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z This payment being considered as the badge of personal serfdom, the class must have consisted of men personally unfree. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The stratagem which reduced Namena from a powerful tribe to its present condition of serfdom is worth narrating for the light it throws upon Fijian methods of diplomacy. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Such is every despotism, the constitution of most Mohammedan kingdoms; and indeed various parts of many constitutions are also of this kind; for example, serfdom, vassalage, and many such institutions. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z They refused to educate or enfranchise the freedmen, and tried to reduce them to serfdom by heavy taxes and cruel punishments for petty crimes. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z This Russian nobleman, Turgenef, noble in every sense, saw serfdom, and showed it to his countrymen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z This being so, we may expect to find some traces of the gradual spread of serfdom in the subdivisions of that comprehensive class called villainage. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z And as you look, remember that this fair lass was but a peasant's child, born to serfdom at the best. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Many of these acts betokened an intention on the part of the lawmakers to reduce the freedmen to a state of serfdom or peonage. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z But there were no meaner masters than those who from serfdom rose, as though out of the mud, to be lords! Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z The abolition of serfdom had just been announced; every one was discussing it, and we young people were enthusiastic for the great event. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z The three tests of serfdom applied by our documents are connected with each other by the very terms in which they are stated, and at the same time they present three consecutive stages of development. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z In Cumberland and Westmorland there are several villages named Carleton, this being one of the reminders of the days of serfdom. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z Pierce to the centre, Art's fiery finger! and break up ere long The serfdom of this world. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Nowadays, on the other hand, we seem to live in the midst of anonymous and impersonal serfdom.—We must not buy the facilitation of labour too dear. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The young children thus ‘liberated’ are handed over to the French mission stations, where they receive the kindest care, but nothing justifies this form of serfdom. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z Moreover, the gospel of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity had reached the ears of those who had for centuries silently borne oppression and had been made to believe that serfdom was to be their fate forever. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Without the promise of protection against life’s adversities, the fundamentals of capitalism are undermined, and we would all be on the road to serfdom. Swiss Must Save UBS’s Bonus Pool or Die Trying: Jonathan Weil 2011-09-22T00:22:01Z The federal income tax was the “great milestone on the road to serfdom.” Perry?s Books Get New Scrutiny 2011-09-03T02:29:54Z Dams and walls against barbarians, against plagues, against physical and spiritual serfdom! Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Thence they arrived at serfdom, a somewhat less horrible condition. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z The history of the Middle Ages, the establishment of serfdom and its gradual abolition, also furnish an analogue. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The plundering movement of the Zaporojie and the popular uprising of the Ukraine mob demanded some higher watchwords than slaughter and robbery, than a struggle against serfdom and the land-grabbing of magnates. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z A notch higher, we find the state called serfdom, where man is not wholly interdicted to own property, and where he is allowed a family, which fact constitutes the superiority of serfdom over slavery. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z And is the saddest of all serfdom--the serfdom of woman--to continue? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z And the product of such labor will be "infinitely better, and considerably greater, than the mass of goods hitherto produced under the goad of slavery, serfdom, and wage-slavery." Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z Bondage, serfdom, even slavery, seemed to be sanctioned by the Bible. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z These proceeded to organise a series of raids against the Fingoes, whose emancipation from serfdom to themselves had long been a sore point. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The Sagas are the Commonplace Book, the livre de raison, in which this soul of the North, free from all taint of the South, and from all antique serfdom, has left its mark. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Look at Russia, the land that so long retained serfdom and the knout,--even there the number of learned women is perceptibly increasing, and the Russian high schools do not reject female pupils. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The question of serfdom found this minister's knowledge at fault. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z There seemed to be no serfdom in bowing to a man so magnificently endowed by nature and so favored by fortune. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z The social roadblocks of the steam era were slavery and serfdom, which were abolished in Europe and the Americas between the 1830s and the 1880s. We need a New Deal for information technology 2011-06-14T11:01:00Z You have held me, not for long, but you have held me, nevertheless, in the serfdom you desired. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Has not advancing culture abolished serfdom in Russia? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z I was intent only upon helping him to free himself from the serfdom of memories. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z He abolished the penalty of death, put an end to serfdom among the peasantry, cut down the privileges of the nobles, and tried, for a short time, the experiment of a free press. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z An edict of Louis XVI. of 1779 abolished serfdom on crown lands, and mitigated the condition of the serfs who still existed on the domains of individual lords. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." 2011-05-27T02:00:16.463Z This system of industrial serfdom has served the steel barons well for a generation. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z Generations of serfdom had reasserted themselves; he might have killed from behind, but before the patrician's glance and voice resistance did not even occur to him. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z In Europe it has produced serfdom and feudalism, besides a good deal of servitude and degradation concealed under the mild name of peasant. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z It made a great sweep of the chief injustices of the absolutist regime; it abolished tax exemptions, serfdom, aristocratic titles and privileges and sought to establish a constitutional monarchy in Paris. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Religious, moral and economic forces had acted upon serfdom, the more common sort of slavery in Europe, and aided by the resulting increase of vigor among the serfs themselves, had disintegrated it. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z But if we falter and fail to act this great effort will be lost, and we will sink back into a miserable and hopeless serfdom. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z The abolition of serfdom in Russia and in Roumania, and of feudal dues in Austria-Hungary, paved the way for the entrance of these states into modern European civilization. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z From that time for nearly six hundred years or more the Esthonians were practically reduced to a state of serfdom to the German landowners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The reason for this is clear: the oppression and serfdom of the country, the opportunities of the city. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z It coincides with the 150th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom. Russia Links Lincoln With the Freedom of Serfs 2011-02-23T21:50:14Z From generation to generation they live and die, are born and given in marriage, but the tenure of their serfdom is still the same. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Nevertheless serfdom continued to decline all through the latter years of the 14th century, and was growing obsolete in the 15th. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Fully ninety-four per cent. have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z And the consequence was that he evolved a peculiarly ingenious system of land serfdom, which bears many likenesses to the serfdom that replaced slavery in Europe. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z These did not abolish serfdom, but they greatly limited it, so that it was even said that a native enjoyed more privileges than a Creole. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Serfs replaced slaves; vassals replaced serfs; some day, vassalage also will disappear as did slavery and serfdom! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z This intense, violent, independent people destroyed productive land and were forced into serfdom, in part, by changes they themselves caused. Learning From the Viking Age 2011-01-12T15:19:00Z He next delivered himself of some tuneful periods about humanity, and then wandered off into a spoken essay on the behaviour of the great European Powers on this question of serfdom. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The net result of the whole policy of serfdom was so to deplete the ranks of laborers that a new solution of the labor problem must be found. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z We read of Radischeff—the first to point out the horrors of serfdom—who was imprisoned, deported, and died by suicide. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Furthermore, even Professor Hayek favored welfare spending and social insurance, so those programs will not alone bring us to serfdom. Economic View: The Pendulum Swings Toward Austerity 2010-06-26T20:10:00Z It takes literally the demonstrably false claim of libertarian economist Friedrich von Hayek, that each step the government takes into the economy is a step down the "road to serfdom." Freedom's just another word for letting corporations do whatever they want 2010-04-07T02:07:00Z But China, which says it sent troops in 1950 to Tibet to liberate the country from feudal serfdom, says he is bent on independence. 2010-01-25T13:13:00Z On the other hand one of the inevitable expedients for fastening serfdom on the country Negro was enforced ignorance. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z The reformers who had worked for the abolition of serfdom were still. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Nevertheless, the peasantry of Europe to-day is in large part the product of serfdom and of that race-subjection which produced serfdom. Races and Immigrants in America But the result of these impositions was that many of the Indians became discouraged and indicated a preference for returning to serfdom or slavery. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Thus, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the old serfdom which still existed in a very harsh form in many provinces was mitigated, and villeinage substituted. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Here then are the two developments—a determined effort at an established serfdom on the part of landholding capitalists, and a determined effort on the part of freedmen and their sons to attain economic independence. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z No more slavery—serfdom was abolished—the muzhiks were free. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z All his life long he had been hardly more than a cipher, a poorly paid menial, and now possible freedom and escape from serfdom was near. Rockhaven So negro slaves were imported from the mother country, and their descendants remained in the bonds of serfdom for centuries. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future He despised himself for regretting certain pleasanter phases of his serfdom at Oakmont. The Guarded Heights He had hoped to be rid of his serfdom and slavery to woman, now that his whimsical little princess had gone off with her servile valet of an uncle! In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II On his accession to the red throne, the Iron Despot immediately expelled progress from his empire by butchering the Decembrists—those pioneers of freedom who fought for a constitution and the abolition of serfdom. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z The object of this ordinance was to secure revenue, but it led to the institution of serfdom in its most grinding form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" A decree of 1487 practically established serfdom in Bohemia, where it had hitherto been almost unknown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" When I spoke of independence, I meant freedom from the serfdom of another's charity. The Fortunes Of Glencore In 1783 the peasants of Ukraine, free since 1648, when they had thrown off Polish domination, were again subjected by the Russian government to serfdom in its most cruel form. Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic This fierce menace, however, by no means disheartened the Milanese, who determined to employ every means of resistance in their power, and to die gloriously rather than wear the fetters of serfdom. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Thus, unless the administration be extremely rigorous, once more will a kind of serfdom be established, to be, as some would say, taken over hereafter by the socialist state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The peasantry had ceased to be dangerous since the establishment of serfdom; the power of the cities was now thoroughly undermined. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Like slavery in our own Southern States serfdom died hard, and its supporters are not yet all "reconstructed." Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The serfdom of the small farmer was so profitable for the gentry that the preponderance of the aristocracy became superficially Russian. Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic His field of satire ranges from the days before serfdom to the epoch of the reforms, extends to the days of the Russo-Turkish War, and passes the frontier into the West. An Outline of Russian Literature As in the times of the annona civica, slavery, feudalism, or statutory serfdom, the burthen of the maintenance of the poor fell only in part on charity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The transition in meaning to the idea of serfdom, and hence to slavery, is due to an early confusion with “bond,” from “bind.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" What a work it would be to lift those poor people from their lifelong condition of serfdom! A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War The fact of the abolition of serfdom by the Emperor of Russia was producing a great moral and economic effect. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine When the first European adventurers went to the West Indies, serfdom was still common in Spain. The West Indies and the Spanish Main There was a general desire to be quit of the serfdom of pauperism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" In the old bad days of serfdom, his father, who was even a bigger ruffian, if it is possible, than his son, had my father flogged to death for a trivial offence. The Intriguers The lesser nobility, including the landed gentry, was reduced to the level of free peasants; the peasantry itself was placed in virtually complete serfdom; and cultural activity became almost nonexistent. Area Handbook for Romania Marsac ran over a catalogue of those they had ruined in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfort, and Vienna, simply because they had attempted to emancipate themselves from the serfdom imposed upon them. That Boy Of Norcott's In England serfdom had virtually come to an end, and the agricultural labourer might go where he pleased. The West Indies and the Spanish Main As this status of serfdom was hitherto unknown in Roman law, a great many imperial enactments had to be issued defining the rights and duties of the coloni. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. They pulled civilization down, but they fell with it—into serfdom. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern He secures the succession of his son through the same means by which he had raised the Grand Princedom of Muscovy, that strange compound of princedom and serfdom. Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century Whilst impatient his badges of serfdom to lose, Each Chinese without fail parts his head from his tail, And henceforth minds his toup�es instead of his queues. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) In England, as we have seen, serfdom disappeared, or existed in name only, and the relation between the country gentry and the peasants became increasingly intimate and kindly. Women of England He was the first W�rttemberg landholder to abolish serfdom on his estates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" In the nineteenth century were all the glories of the Victorian Era, and in it slavery was abolished in the United States and serfdom in Russia. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 But even those who had migrated into a town with their lords’ consent could not very well for long continue in serfdom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" So again I had missed my chance, and the incident had not served to reconcile me to my serfdom. The Portal of Dreams It was a change of serfdom for serfdom; but they found consolation in the knowledge that the change from the horrors they had undergone could not but improve their misery. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium At a time when the laboring classes of Europe had achieved emancipation from serfdom, and feudalism was overthrown, African slavery in our own Southland laid the foundation for a new feudalism. Our Southern Highlanders Palaces multiply as hovels increase; and while millionaires are common, the million sink back to that hopeless poverty of destitution that has the name of freedom, as a mockery to their serfdom. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Gogol now undertook to lay bare the ills of serfdom. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy One of their most celebrated representatives, Khomyakov, sees in Russia "a land stigmatized" by serfdom, where all is injustice, lies, morbid laziness and turpitude. Contemporary Russian Novelists This had been held even in the case of European serfdom, although there the rulers and the ruled are of the same blood, religion and language. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War In South Carolina, for instance, the breach of a labor contract has been made a crime, the object being to reduce the Negro to a state of serfdom. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction. Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 He did not object to serfdom, provided that it safeguarded the elementary rights of the serf to serve God as well as man. The History of Freedom It has endured much; suffered ages long of slavery and serfdom. Violence and the Labor Movement The old proprietor is ignorant and good-natured, of respectable family, but with coarse habits; hard, from long experience of serfdom, servile himself, but admirable in all other relations of life. Fathers and Children In 1722 serfdom was abolished in the case of all peasants in the royal estates born after his accession. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Without first stepping off at serfdom, they leaped from chattel slavery to wage slavery. Woman under socialism In the evolution of European society the common man was crowded down toward the condition of serfdom. History of Human Society I make a little use of Mahomet M. M.'s passion to achieve my throne instead of taking up at once with serfdom. The Landleaguers The emancipation of the Russian peasants from the yoke of serfdom that has until now weighed upon them, is therefore the first task of the Russian revolutionist. Anarchism and Socialism On the 17th of September the burgesses introduced a bill proposing a new constitution, which was to include local self-government in the towns, the abolition of serfdom, and the formation of a national army. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" In this way dependence and serfdom spread ever more. Woman under socialism Were Britain a serfdom and you the Czar, you could not compel me to this step. Shirley The excuse of slavery or serfdom was no longer legitimate, though it was loudly proclaimed by the agitators, the trade-union editors, and the parlor reformers. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The love of man and woman for each other and their children lifts humanity out of its serfdom, but it also places limitations. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author In Jutland, too, after the repression, in 1441, of a peasant rising, something very like serfdom was introduced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Nor would those far above the extremes of serfdom fail to reap a large part of the benefit. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed The industrial classes emerge from slavery and serfdom into a wage system, which in turn is modified in the direction of fair wages, short hours, and security of employment—fundamental conditions for personal development. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 Even Poland has only given her a desert, a kingdom scantily cultivated, scantily peopled, discontented serfdom and a broken frontier. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 It has been truly said by the poet Browning:— The honest earnest man must stand and work, The woman also—otherwise she drops At once below the dignity of man, Accepting serfdom. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Nor was the reforming principle limited to the abolition of serfdom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" At a reasonable valuation of their furs, there was seldom a year that most, if not all, the Bay trappers might not have been freed from their serfdom. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob If the Germans are triumphant, he added, force and falsehood will triumph with them, the State will acquire omnipotence, the individual sink into serfdom. England and Germany All military conquest involves the ancient practices of serfdom. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The force which was driving men away was not the desire to escape the incidents of serfdom, but the impossibility of making a living from holdings burdened with heavy rents. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction If they prefer a glorious death to serfdom, I too, being of their mind, shall fight till this war becomes a massacre.” The Traitors Towards the end he got into conversation with an old Russian peasant who, so far from sharing in the general political effervescence, made a long lament over the good old days of serfdom. Ghetto Comedies It was very astonishing to me to see, notwithstanding this serfdom, that they remain submissive to the same masters and mistresses. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China As the peasant slowly emerged from serfdom he found himself a member of a depressed class, without education, political privileges, or capital. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The pressure upon subsistence was felt while villainage was still in force, and the terms upon which serfdom dissolved were influenced by this fact to an extent which has hitherto not been recognized. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Men of the sea, men of that ancient Armorica which, for a thousand years, has suffered serfdom, I come to you bearing no sword. The Maids of Paradise They have attempted, and still do attempt, to perpetuate papal serfdom, by tying their subjects to their paternal acres and their native town. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Was there then in England the form of slavery now in existence in the United States, and until lately in the West Indies; or was it more like the serfdom of Russia? Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc At the present time, with the exception of serfdom, peonage, and political slavery, this subordination is confined to the negro race. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It looked as though the gentleman belonged to that class of idle landowners who used to flourish in the times of serfdom. The Brothers Karamazov Again, he is liable without farther guarantees, to be plunged into peonage, serfdom or even into chattel slavery. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II If pictures and images lead to idolatry in the Church, their exclusive study as infallibly produces serfdom in the State. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The influence the Catholic Church has had on religious free thought, that monarchies have had on political free thought, that serfdom has had upon free labor, have all been cumulative in the family upon woman. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Physical education was dominant among the Spartans, because of serfdom which involved the absolute control of the many by the few. History of Education He attributed the tragic crime to the habits that had become ingrained by ages of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia, due to the lack of appropriate institutions. The Brothers Karamazov The transition from serfdom to the system of wage-labour which succeeded it was a transition from legal dependence to legal freedom, and as such it marked an advance. Progress and History Astriction to the soil was at once the foundation and the symbol of that serfdom. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Many others of his countrymen were earnestly setting their faces against this abuse of serfdom and, even before the measure was passed by law, as far as possible liberating the serfs on their estates. Kościuszko A Biography But the mighty mover of all was the sudden change from the disgusts and depressions of serfdom, into a sense that all the world of possession lay before the bold heart and the ruthless hand. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 There were even two or three outbreaks of applause when he spoke of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia. The Brothers Karamazov Systems of serfdom or caste which bind the workman to his work without permitting him to be sold like a slave may be regarded as one step higher than slavery proper. Progress and History A universal serfdom and barbarism are slowly creeping over all men and all systems. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Bring the plan of serfdom to a woman's nature, and one of two things takes place within her—submission utterly or outwardly. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Thus job-owning, based upon an automatic self-drive principle, enables the job-owner to exact a return in faithful service that neither slavery nor serfdom ever made possible. The American Empire This playful paragraph finished, of course, with an outburst of generous indignation at the wickedness of parricide and at the lately abolished institution of serfdom. The Brothers Karamazov The Zàmoiski estates yielded, 17 years after emancipation, three times as much as they did when serfdom prevailed. Principles Of Political Economy The serfdom of the middle ages was in good degree maintained by binding man to the soil. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The Yamato might sentence these people to serfdom among men of their own race, but they never would have condemned Japanese to such a position among the Yemishi. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era If the capitalists win, the world will see the introduction of a new form of serfdom, more complete and more effective than the serfdom of Feudal Europe. The American Empire They are not servile, and even after two centuries of serfdom they are free in manner and bearing, yet without insolence, and not revengeful and not envious. The Brothers Karamazov Italy, at the end of the fourteenth century, was entirely free from Christian serfdom. Principles Of Political Economy Modeled on that of France, it was far from liberal; but it abolished serfdom, made all citizens equal before the law, and introduced the civil code. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) In Wurtemberg, serfdom was abolished, and a constitution was published a few days before the enrolment of the decrees of Carlsbad. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Behind serfdom there was land ownership and a religious sanction. The American Empire It's simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination—something like a universal serfdom with them as masters—that's all they stand for. The Brothers Karamazov In Bohemia, the old form of serfdom had so far disappeared in the fourteenth century, that it might be said it was known only to history. Principles Of Political Economy His administration stands the guide-post of the centuries, set by the Eternal as the dividing line between the serfdom of the past and the freedom of the future. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The rich could only afford to practice polygamy, and should the poor imitate the example it would necessarily subject the wives to a state of serfdom. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Under serfdom it was the fear of hunger. The American Empire They are crushed, these hands, crushed and bleeding after their long serfdom; they are not hands at all but claws, broken, twisted piteous claws! The Merry-Go-Round But during the reign of the weak king, Ladislaus II, a new species of serfdom came into vogue, the result of the preponderance of the aristocratic element. Principles Of Political Economy But the hardest and bitterest part of the constitution in the eyes of the masses was their state of serfdom. The Athenian Constitution But King Cotton, with his millions in serfdom, issued his imperial decrees, and not even this great railroad development could keep down the tremendous tragedy of the century. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage He had no idea of aiding them; he went out, however, to meet them and induced them to disperse by promising that he would abolish serfdom. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe The more galling and oppressive instances of serfdom seem to have slipped unconsciously away. Stray Studies from England and Italy Even in 1298, Philip IV. had exchanged the serfdom to the crown of several provinces for a land duty. Principles Of Political Economy "Better serfdom, degradation, death under England's flag than liberty if obtained by the assistance of France." The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys It is the serfdom of the finest gifts—of all that should lead and master men, offering itself to be spit upon, and that for a bribe. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Although the king did not keep his promise, serfdom decayed rapidly. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe But the tiny seed of citizenship and independence there already was in the serfdom of the Dark Ages, had nothing to do with what nice things the lord might do to the serf. Eugenics and Other Evils Wherever the right of corporal punishment has been taken from the masters, the technic value of serfdom has uniformly decreased. Principles Of Political Economy "I can, for my country will be saved from a serfdom which no self-respecting nation should submit to." The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys The pretence of political identity had ended in the establishment not only of serfdom but of the most odious form of serfdom, a subjection to one's fellow-subjects. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 Obviously serfdom could exist only as long as land was plentiful. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe It is quite true, of course, that in the days of slavery or of serfdom the needy were fenced by yet fiercer penalties from spoiling the hunting of the rich. Eugenics and Other Evils In Russia, where there are seventy-five persons to the English square mile, it seemed to him that serfdom was still a good economic speculation. Principles Of Political Economy It must, however, be remembered that the farm was the property of a temple, and it is possible that serfdom was confined to land which had been consecrated to the gods. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The farming class, or peasantry, was in a condition of serfdom until within a few years. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The slow extinction of serfdom in western Europe appears to have begun as early as the twelfth century. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Next, national and personal servitude or serfdom, as of the Israelites in Egypt. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? In most countries the servant system developed itself gradually out of serfdom, or of some condition of tutelage analogous thereto. Principles Of Political Economy They acknowledge that slavery, as it once existed, is overthrown; but the continued inferiority and subordination of the colored race, under some form of vassalage or serfdom, is regarded by them as certain. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Ground down under the iron heel of despotism, reduced to a condition of hopeless serfdom, I don't say that they might not develop redeeming virtues. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) The decree abolishing the survivals of serfdom and feudalism, August, 1789. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe The great agricultural populations living in various degrees of serfdom still groaned under the artificial oppressions of a society which had passed away. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Apart from the poor-law system, the actual feudal serfdom, which gave landowners great powers over the peasantry on their estates, was not abolished until the reign of Charles II. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 Mediæval serfdom was due to the need of force to keep the peasant on his holding, when the holding was really a burden to him in view of the dues which he must pay. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Few figures are more picturesque than the figures of the young Scotch kings as they dash themselves against the iron circle which girds them round in their desperate efforts to rescue the Crown from serfdom. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Madame De Berney had been married at the age of sixteen by the busy matchmakers, and her life was one of plain marital serfdom. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers A society founded on serfdom is in keeping with absolute monarchy; a society based on the wage system and the exploitation of the masses by the capitalists finds its political expression in parliamentarianism. The Conquest of Bread We cannot but rejoice that in the present day there exists not the slightest relict of serfdom in any part of the United Kingdom. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 The men whom he ordered to abolish serfdom had to devise a method, and they devised one which was to appear satisfactory to the tsar, but was to protect the interests which they cared for. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals I grant what I would ask—death before serfdom! Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet The facts are all against them; these showing it a scheme of villeinage, more oppressive than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages. The Death Shot A Story Retold In the East, in Africa, everywhere, in Egypt, Tonkin or the Congo, the European is thus bound to promote the growth of serfdom. The Conquest of Bread The latter sometimes brought slaves who had continued faithful, and who retained their serfdom under the laws of Delaware. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 The consequence is that the abolition of serfdom has thrown Russian society into chaos, and as yet reconstruction upon the new system has made little growth. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Now for the first time the peasants were delivered from the serfdom under which they had hitherto suffered. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Montesquieu’s own method might have taught her that not even absolute power can force the civil system of free labour into a society resting on serfdom. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. It is born of slavery and serfdom imposed by force, and only wears a more modern garb. The Conquest of Bread This new Parliament cancelled the institution of serfdom and proclaimed that one of their objects was to have the Habsburg monarchy a federation, on the model of Switzerland. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 We admit that clandestinity and escapade are sometimes authorized and made right by parental tyranny or domestic serfdom. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony It is the almost universal testimony that Scully’s rule in that county has reduced 250 tenants and their families to a condition approaching serfdom. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 There is nothing in the past record of the Union to indicate that an amendment to cover the Natives' Land Act will not be incorporated in the Constitution, thus making the natives' serfdom permanent. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 At the time of the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Russia had hardly any factories. The Conquest of Bread It announced to the different Balkan peoples that the end of their serfdom was approaching, and thus it accentuated their latent rivalries and hostilities. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 He abolished serfdom, established toleration and lived in the happiness of his people. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony The keynote of the past has been the exploitation of man by man in the three forms of slavery, serfdom, and wage-labour. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics He was the real abolisher of serfdom in Russia, as history will yet prove. Memoirs They came here to escape serfdom and starvation and forced military service in an army where they could never be officers. Face to Face with Kaiserism The South fights for slavery, for the despotism which it represents, for the ignoring the rights of labor, and for reducing to slavery or to serfdom all whose hands are hardened by toil. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The effect of the relinquishment of the old demesne farms by the lords of the manors was still more influential in destroying serfdom. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England They were free to go, for serfdom was disappearing from most of the European countries. Society Its Origin and Development In Germany no brand of serfdom can be extirpated without extirpating every kind of serfdom. Selected Essays He is anxious also to abolish serfdom; but to do so at once, without violence, is dangerous. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar They speedily began operations to free Shevtchénko from serfdom; and the manner in which it was finally affected is curious. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The Decay of Serfdom.—It is in the changes discussed in the last two paragraphs that is to be found the key to the disappearance of serfdom in England. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England The disasters of the Crimean War were attributed to the corrupt condition of all classes, caused, it was claimed, by this pernicious institution of serfdom. Rabbi and Priest A Story This was a little better than slavery but it actually gave the Negroes a status ranging between serfdom and indentured service. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 "There shall be no chattel slavery or serfdom anywhere in the Empire; no sapient being of any race whatsoever shall be the property of any being but himself." A Slave is a Slave The sufferings of the people in serfdom form the subject of another series of his poems, and in this category, "Katerína" is the best worked out and most dramatic of his productions. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The lords had valued serfdom above all because it furnished an adequate and absolutely certain supply of labor. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Looking about, one saw venality in full feather, serfdom crushing people like a rock, informers lurking everywhere. Rabbi and Priest A Story But this does not impair the identification of the Sūdras with those tribes who were reduced to subjection and serfdom in the Hindu villages, as shown by the evidence here given. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Stein abolished serfdom, and in some respects did away with the legal distinction of classes, thereby paving the way for the rise of the middle class, which at that time meant a progressive step. German Culture Past and Present His "Notes of a Sportsman" constitutes a noteworthy historical monument of the period, not only as a work of the highest art, but also as a protest against serfdom. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The number of freemen through the country was larger, but the serfdom of the great majority can scarcely have been much influenced by these individual cases. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England The honest earnest man must stand and work: The woman also, otherwise she drops At once below the dignity of man, Accepting serfdom. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to "wage slavery" or the capitalism of to-day. A Preface to Politics Probably, in many instances, they were glad to accompany the husband and father into serfdom. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country But the system of labor they enforced was regarded, perhaps justly, as the introduction of serfdom, such as then prevailed in the larger communities in the Rio Grande valleys. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 According to a petition submitted to Parliament in 1377 the villains were refusing to pay their customary services to their lords and to acknowledge the requirements of their serfdom. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England And thus it will be found in the history of nations, that, whenever population has reached that density in the temperate zones, serfdom, villenage, or slavery, whatever it has been called, has disappeared. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government In spite of this decree, serfdom lingered in England for centuries, but hiring superseded open buying and selling of men. The Rise of the Democracy This act of confiscation was followed by their reduction to a state of serfdom in their new homes, no one being permitted to change his abode without permission, under a very severe penalty. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Of course, the atmosphere of discriminations is equally pernicious for those who suffer and those who are privileged: did not serfdom corrupt the master as well as the slave? The Shield A legal relation of which neither party is reminded is apt to become obsolete; and that is what practically happened to serfdom in England. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England In the first place, he has built up a comprehensive system of domestic serfdom to which he cheerfully submits. The Patient Observer And His Friends The Statutes of Labourers were ineffectual; but they galled the labourers and kept serfdom alive. The Rise of the Democracy They lived in bondage and serfdom under the Persian and Roman governments and were scattered throughout the desert, engaged in continual strife and bloodshed. The Promulgation of Universal Peace But his conception of right and wrong has been confused from time immemorial, the sense of injustice is undeveloped in his dark mind, dimmed by centuries of Tartardom, boyardom, and the horrors of serfdom. The Shield It is true that many persons were still legally serfs, and occasionally the fact of their serfdom was asserted in the courts or inferred by granting them manumission. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England They lived in bondage and serfdom under the Íránian and Roman governments and were scattered throughout the desert engaged in continual strife and bloodshed. Bahá’í World Faith She says the life from which the peasants mostly come to us is the old peasant life, but a little way removed from feudalism and serfdom. Aliens or Americans? When thoroughly done, they come out, beautifully plumped, as the cooks say, and feeling fresh and vigorous, and as fit as ever they were in their lives to encounter a new week of serfdom. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 He was ambitious, and was founder of the system of serfdom, and also of the Russian State Church, and like many of the other rulers of Russia, met death through infamy, supposedly having been poisoned. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights But long before this time serfdom had ceased to have much practical importance. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Nay, suppose the conquest achieved, and that they themselves are reduced to the veriest serfdom, none the less will they strive to goad other hereditary bondswomen into striking the blow. Sword and Gown A Novel One hundred years ago half the inhabitants of Prussia were practically in the toils of serfdom. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View My wifely duties were as serfdom to me; how then could I love my daughters? Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat In the twinkling of an eye she reduced Belgium to industrial serfdom. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Here, in the end, Rome laid her mortmain upon Greek, Phoenician, and Sikeliot alike, turning the island into a granary and reducing its inhabitants to serfdom. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series In Germany serfdom remained far beyond the end of the sixteenth century, doubtless in part because of the fears excited by the civil war of 1525. The Age of the Reformation It was only by an edict of 1807, to take effect in 1810, that personal serfdom with its consequences, especially the oppressive obligation of menial service, was abolished in the Prussian monarchy. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View In the early middle ages he did not even condescend to read and write, those inferior accomplishments being badges of serfdom. Post-Prandial Philosophy From the debasement of industrial serfdom, the black workman wished the American people of 1914 to stop the trend of their strenuous existence and behold him ... and test him ... and proclaim him. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Madame de Mourairef did the honours in an inexpressibly graceful manner; and I observed that there was a delightful intimacy between her and her maid Penelope, that quite upset my ideas of northern serfdom. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 But here, too, and elsewhere, the fundamental demands were the same: freedom from serfdom, from oppressive taxation and forced labor, and for unrestricted rights of hunting and woodcutting in the forests. The Age of the Reformation From abject serfdom and pauperism he has risen to a plane far above the masses of any race of people. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro The south-east, I assert, has been brutalised into acquiescent serfdom by a long course of feudalism; the west and north still retain the instincts of freemen. Post-Prandial Philosophy So why should she hasten to give this liberty up in exchange for a serfdom, sweet sometimes, it is true, but which too often becomes galling and unendurable. Violets and Other Tales Through various grades of slavery, serfdom, villeinage, and through various organizations of castes and guilds, the industrial organization has been modified and developed up to the modern system. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other The present tract preached that "obedience was dead and justice sick"; it attacked serfdom as wicked, denounced the ecclesiastical law and demanded the freedom given by Christ. The Age of the Reformation In a century and a half serfdom had almost vanished. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality On another occasion, a waiter in a hotel recognized the Russians who were with us as neighbors of his former master in the days of serfdom. Russian Rambles Before the reforms of 1848 they were in a state of absolute serfdom, and could not legally take service away from the place where they were born. Round About the Carpathians As the name implies, they were historically the descendants of the men who in earlier times were freed from serfdom. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century Society environing the home gives its members the habits of twentieth-century autonomy, individual initiative and responsibility, together with collective living and working, while the home often seeks to perpetuate thirteenth-century absolutism, serfdom, and subjection. Religious Education in the Family That serfdom should be abolished, “since Christ redeemed us all with His precious blood, the shepherd as well as the noble, the lowest as well as the highest, none being excepted.” The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer In fact, all the ex-serfs with whom I talked retained a soft spot in their hearts for the comforts and irresponsibility of the good old days of serfdom. Russian Rambles It was the 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' of that day, and of the cause he had at heart—the abolition of serfdom. Round About the Carpathians The system of serfdom, by which serfs were bound to a particular domain and owned by their overlord, had not yet ceased. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century You Chieftains gathered on this hill, Do not yet know the fate that looms, The threat that all with fear must fill, And Latvia's folk to serfdom dooms.- Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse And doubtless, as true and honest Christians, you will gladly abolish serfdom, or prove it to be in accordance with the Gospel. The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer Those rugs had been made in the old days of serfdom, on private estates, and are not to be bought. Russian Rambles Simon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, stupid, without education, and even without religion. The Awakening The Resurrection They ransomed us from serfdom and bought our liberty with a great price. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service They are physically strong, and they have been trained by centuries of serfdom to discipline and hardships. The Half-Hearted Such, in brief outline, was the system of serfdom which prevailed until 1861. A Short History of Russia It was a choice between vassalage, serfdom, or destruction outright. A Short History of France Even during the Dark Ages, even in its most corrupted form, Christianity wrought for the practical extinction of serfdom. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic A condition of slavery or of serfdom produces two grievous evils, around which cluster many others of less importance, viz: the creation of vast landed estates, and the pauperization and debasement of labor. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South In every class society, whether it be based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at the present moment, on wage-labor, the class of the oppressors is an armed class. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Their aims were the abolition of serfdom, the destruction of all existing institutions, and a perfect equality under a constitutional government. A Short History of Russia As every one knows, the revolt was a failure; and whether it ultimately helped much to extinguish serfdom is doubtful. A Short History of English Agriculture About her were no evidences of her former serfdom. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Since then the Protestants have seen the Irish Catholic rising from the dust of serfdom and standing in the attitude of manhood. The Life Story of an Old Rebel It was impossible to restore serfdom, of course, but the condition of the peasants without land was even worse than if they had remained serfs. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Then another sort of bondage was discovered, one very nearly approaching to serfdom. A Short History of Russia Surely, as this man's wife there would be no serfdom; and, yet, could she wed a man for whom she felt no spark of love? The Deserter Shall we, therefore, wish that our boys had the manageableness of German ones, and with it the submissiveness and political serfdom of adult Germans? Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library It declines further serfdom to an ecclesiastical court. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Judgment upon this vital question has long been embittered by the experience of the peasants with the "redemption payments" which were established when serfdom was abolished. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Such was the prevailing public sentiment in 1861, when Emperor Alexander affixed his name to the measure which was going to make it forever glorious—the emancipation of over twenty-three million human beings from serfdom. A Short History of Russia Article III demanded the abolition of serfdom, however, as a test whether the Christianity of the lords was genuine. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation I it was who for myself did shape this shame! with death-dealing sword should I have stabbed him; weakly it escaped me:— now serfdom I have shaped me. Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts I shall show them that they are being robbed and cheated and forced into ignominious serfdom. The Gun-Brand I ran hither and thither at your slightest bidding; I was the veriest slave, and I was happy in my serfdom. The Grey Cloak It needed courage of no ordinary sort to break up this serfdom encrusted with tyrannies. A Short History of Russia Fourthly, it appears that Hayek in �Road to serfdom� argues in favour of a �guaranteed minimum income for everyone� - which would be called a �basic income� nowadays. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy Other peoples, emerging from, a condition of serfdom, retaining many of the instincts of a conquered race, get what liberty they have by extorting it piecemeal from their masters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 That you would educate and show them they were being robbed and cheated and forced into serfdom? The Gun-Brand For, after having done away with the institution of serfdom, the State was consistently bound to liberate its three million of Jewish serfs who had been ruthlessly oppressed and persecuted during the old régime. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) They were restive under the severity of the new military r�gime, and also smarting under a decree forbidding them to receive any more fugitive peasants fleeing from serfdom. A Short History of Russia So when women passed from slavery to serfdom we lost something of male dominance and of female submission. Woman in Modern Society Thus serfdom had merged or was rapidly merging into free servitude; but it did not so merge that labouring men, if they pleased, were allowed to live in idleness. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) The Premier alluded to the tremendous change wrought in the national life by the abolition of the liquor traffic, which he designated a second serfdom vanishing at the behest of the Czar. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Beneath the rotting corpse of an obsolete statecraft, built upon serfdom and maintained by soldiery and police, the germ of a new and better Russia began to stir. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) It was then that the utility of the system of serfdom became apparent. A Short History of Russia Meantime forces were set at work which were to change the economic foundations of the family and enable the woman to emerge from serfdom into some new form of industrial relationship. Woman in Modern Society Every conquest by a republic reduced some village or center091 of civil life to the condition of serfdom. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The reaction of the Negro Americans upon this wholesale and open attempt to reduce them to serfdom has been interesting. The Negro In the country the yeomanry—the laborers and farmers—were throwing off their serfdom, and emerging from the chrysalis of obscurity in which they had long been hidden. A History of English Prose Fiction He is now struggling, against the opposition of the nobles, to emancipate the boors from the slavery of serfdom, being ambitious of elevating all his subjects to the highest manhood. The Empire of Russia The law of diminishing returns was driving capital further and further afield; and large profits, it was hoped, might be made by the exploitation of backward countries and the reduction of their inhabitants to serfdom. Outspoken Essays If we emancipate from slavery and leave the European doctrine of serfdom extant, even in the mildest form, then the colored race, or we, or perhaps both, have another war in store. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Labour is holy, but serfdom is accursed, and toil which demands that every hour of daylight should be spent in the race for existence—all of the daylight—is kin to slavery! The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls It lay, as every Negro soon knew and knows, in escape from menial serfdom. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Out of the serfdom and obscurity to which it had been condemned by the Normans, it had sprung forth in reality, as in name, the English language. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Russia is to-day eating the bitter fruits of ages of serfdom; and the greatest peril ever encountered by the United States was a war brought on by negro slavery. The Awakening of China I despise the Republican party for the political serfdom we suffer today, under the heel of every foreign lord and lackey who treads our soil. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years This law created and sustained the serfdom I have described, and is the direct cause of the modern land problem. The Framework of Home Rule To these later folk must be added the four and one-half millions of the South African Union, who by every modern device are being forced into landless serfdom. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil I have shown how the serfdom of the Irish tenant leads to misery. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Their material condition, since the abolition of serfdom, is superior to that of the Italian peasantry, who enjoy the fullest political rights. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 It had a political influence and was not foreign to the abolition of serfdom. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories The Russian workman, who is at bottom an illiterate peasant with the old roots of serfdom still clinging to him, has seldom any bowels for his neighbor and none at all for his employer. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Half the land and the people are in domains under Portugal, France, and Belgium, held with the avowed idea of exploitation for the benefit of Europe under a system of caste and color serfdom. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil In the last chapter the ascent of the human being from serfdom to freedom and personality was traced. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life Two things which have especially tended to give the Raskol a democratic—or even liberal—complexion are serfdom and the bureaucratic despotism of the country. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 An actual incident of a few years ago reveals the prevailing conflict of opinion, especially with regard to the serfdom which ties down Indians to India. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Valentine recognized in the voice the badge of serfdom, even more than in the question, and he smiled with a cold triumph. Flames Before the abolition of serfdom a proprietor could send his human property into exile. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life But, happily for the masses of mankind, few vestiges of serfdom and slavery, and those in a mitigated form, now virtually exist. Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 It was no mere coincidence which caused the Raskol to break out about half a century after serfdom was established. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 The beauty of service, such as Jesus praised, lay in the willingness of the service: a service that is serfdom loses all beauty, whether rendered by man or by woman. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays The very first work of importance by Turgenev, A Sportsman's Sketches, dealt with the question of serfdom, and it wielded tremendous influence in bringing about its abolition. Best Russian Short Stories The system of serfdom never had any practical hold in Siberia. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life If there is in the work a protest against serfdom, or the author takes up arms against the vulgarity of aristocratic society, the work is significant and valuable. The Darling and Other Stories Finally, it became hereditary, and it is an amusing but pathetic thing to find that this honor, so highly prized in the early period, became in the end a form of serfdom. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature We have outgrown the theory of serfdom in a thousand ways, and may as well abandon the whole. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays In not very remote times, serfdom which bordered on slavery was still in existence in Cho-sen. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm To the latter is justly due the credit of raising the nation from barbarism; the former has the immortal honor of removing the stain of serfdom. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life An attempt to confine appropriations for negro schools to the amount of taxes directly paid by the negroes has been made; men have sought office on a platform of practical serfdom for the negro. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution I see men struggling to get out of the serfdom of bad habits, and I want to help them. The Abominations of Modern Society The last traces of serfdom could only be detected in one or two of the eastern provinces annexed to France by conquest; everywhere else the institution had disappeared. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History They were contented because their skins were white, and because they were thereby part of an aristocracy to whom labor was a badge of serfdom. George Washington, Volume I Aristotle speaks of slavery without repugnance save in Greeks, and serfdom was incorporated in the northern tribes as soon as they began to be socially organized. Heart of Man One was a modified serfdom, in which the tenant worked for the landlord four or five days in every week for a small wage. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution A second was the replacement of serfdom and peonage by free labor receiving fixed wages and salaries. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History In no part of Germany, for instance, at the close of the eighteenth century, was serfdom as yet completely abolished. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Shall I consent to grasp within my hand The sign of serfdom and to get the habit Of marching like a mushroom down the Strand, A mushroom on a rabbit? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 It was only the blind worship and the loyalty of a peon whose feet were bare, whose hands were calloused with labor, whose face was seamed with the harshness of his serfdom. The Gringos It is a trait of serfdom, the keen eye to measure the inherent rights of a man to be master. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 Nor is it correct to represent ecclesiastical influences as the sole agency which overthrew slavery and serfdom. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Though serfdom's sad conditions left behind, Yet there be countless snares of varied kind!— Russian Lyrics A remnant of feudal serfdom still deprived certain of the rural classes, subject to the tenement law, of the right to marry or bequeath what they possessed to their children without permission of their lord. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 The end of Alaska's serfdom was near at hand. The Alaskan Alternative to serfdom: five lectures delivered on The William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June Was not my reviewer intending to advocate some form of serfdom which is compatible with legal rights, and recognizes the serf as a man; not slavery which pronounces him a chattel? Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed The negroes were, therefore, in this instance involuntarily made the instruments for strengthening the chains of their own serfdom. Abraham Lincoln Debarred from the support of the noble class, the Rumanian peasantry lost its state of autonomy, which changed into one of serfdom to the soil upon which they toiled. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey On the whole, instead of hampering migration, as serfdom would have done, the institution of slavery made the negro population much more responsive to new industrial opportunity than if it had been free. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Even Russia never fought for serfdom, and Austria has only enslaved nations, not individuals. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 By his failure to keep this promise, serfdom continued in England four hundred years afterwards. Comic History of England We lose rather than gain in change from serfdom to free citizenship if the most prized result of the change is simply an increase in the mechanical efficiency of the human tools of production. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education It was in the time of serfdom—many years before Alexander II.'s liberation of the sixty million serfs in 1862. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Finally, when the growth of population has made land so dear that common laborers in freedom cannot save enough to buy farms, the occasion for slavery and serfdom lapses. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Thousands of persons were entrapped into serfdom through a measure which the sovereign had intended should lessen the evils of that institution. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 However, West African slavery was more like the European system of serfdom than it was like modern slavery. The Black Experience in America Men and women though no longer bought and sold in the market place are subjected to subtler forms of serfdom. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Everybody took a turn at robbing it whenever it had anything worth carrying off, until the Norman buccaneers appropriated it bodily and reduced the Saxons to serfdom. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Another conceivable plan would have been to replace slavery at large by serfdom. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Napoleonism and Liberalism were the same thing in the mind of Alexander, and he finally came to regard serfdom itself as something that should not be touched. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 The disappointment and impatience of the Negroes at the persistence of slavery and serfdom voiced itself in two movements. The Souls of Black Folk Tourgenieff, a more consummate artist, in his hunting scenes exhibited the effect of serfdom upon society, in a series of scenes with no necessary central figure, without comment, and with absolute concealment of any motive. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue As a contrast to the lying statement, which falsifies the historical facts, that the Christian religion has raised the condition of woman, the Christian Church offers to woman nothing but serfdom. The Woman's Bible In view of the prevailing traits and the density of the population a general return whether to slavery or serfdom was economically unthinkable. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime It would, however, be most unjust so to speak of Russian serfdom as to convey the impression that it ever was quite so bad as American slavery is. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 This represents the lowest economic depths of the black American peasant; and in a study of the rise and condition of the Negro freeholder we must trace his economic progress from the modern serfdom. The Souls of Black Folk By misery chastened, By serfdom of old, The heart of thy people, 400 O Tsar, is of gold. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? We have the happy conspiracy in which Washington became the military leader, and the French Revolution, which, bloody as it was, succeeded in rescuing Frenchmen from the condition of serfdom. The Life of Cicero Volume One Two of his reforms—the abolition of serfdom, and the edict of religious toleration—remained in force. Outline of Universal History Alexander, whose reign began in 1801, was moved by a sincere desire to get rid of serfdom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom. The Souls of Black Folk The words about serfdom Were quickly caught up By the crowd, and went passing From one to another: 260 "Yes, if there's no big snake There cannot be small ones!" Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? |
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