Ninety per cent of the peasantry was stuck in a serfdom that offered few ways out. |
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Originally staged in January 1904, the play is set after the abolishment of serfdom, but well before the Bolshevik Revolution. |
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In the Middle Ages, body serfdom frequently involved merely a right to claim payments. |
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Eventually, Roman slavery was transformed into serfdom, a form of servitude that mitigated some of the harsher features of the older system. |
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For centuries, serfdom was a way of life for most Russian peasants who did not own any land. |
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It's the best set of opinions I've seen yet on the current attempts to pound the populace into digital serfdom. |
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Under serfdom, peasants were not paid for their produce on demesne. |
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The blues were in part the cotton pickers' lament for a life of serfdom. |
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They advance against that standard, rather than the pestilence, beggary and injustice of serfdom. |
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The Crimean war led to big domestic reforms, including the abolition of serfdom. |
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It comes down to legalising the same kind of serfdom in the ports that is rife on the seas. |
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In 1917 peasants barely 50 years out of serfdom made up some 85 percent of the population. |
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The difference is enormous. It is the difference between freedom and serfdom. |
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At the time, a feudal serfdom system had existed in Tibet and over 95 per cent of Tibetans had been reduced to a state of slavery. |
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Any attempt to reintroduce serfdom in Tibet was contrary to the will of the Tibetan people. |
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Fishermen had previously lived under serfdom but by 1830, this practice was extinct and Auchmithie fishermen were free to move as they wished. |
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The constitution of Nepal, 1990, prohibits slavery, serfdom and forced labor in any form. |
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The abolition of serfdom set him on a path towards urban poverty. |
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Why isn't his first step the abolition of the State Department's outrageous program of state-sponsored serfdom? |
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Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? |
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Another is that the players are exploited in a system that amounts to a kind of serfdom. |
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Obamacare is pushing America down the road to serfdom, but neither its opponents nor advocates seem to have noticed. |
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The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else. |
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Between 1784 and 1815, the abolition of serfdom made the majority of the peasants into landowners. |
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The thirteenth century is a very happy period of the city is built the church of S. Andrea, in 1243 was founded the first university in the Piedmont and the first example in Italy, was abolished serfdom. |
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Clearly, the legal protections enshrined in the Nepali Constitution against slavery, serfdom, or forced labor in any form have not been accessible to people working under conditions of bonded labor. |
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It concentrates on the Golovin family from Obukhovo, a village renamed when the new serfdom of collectivisation arrived, the church bells taken away to be melted down as peasants ululate. |
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This may also include institutions not commonly classified as slavery, such as serfdom, conscription and penal labour. |
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Cities lay in ruins, trade had collapsed, serfdom was reinstated. |
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Although serfdom was abolished in 1861, it was done on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries. |
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The Qin dynasty, which ruled China from 221 to 206 BC, abolished slavery and discouraged serfdom. |
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Nepal's 1990 Constitution guaranteed the protection of the rights and interests of the child and prohibited human trafficking, serfdom and forced labour. |
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Efforts to curtail the mobility of the peasants by tying them to their land brought Russia closer to legal serfdom. |
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The state fully sanctioned serfdom, and runaway peasants became state fugitives. |
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Events of this period included the emancipation of the miner from slavery and serfdom as the Saxon miner became a free agent whose services were in demand from Britain to Transylvania. |
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Cossack numbers expanded when the warriors were joined by peasants escaping serfdom in Russia and dependence in the Commonwealth. |
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The first reason was historical: when the People's Republic of China had been founded in 1949, a feudal serfdom system had existed in the Tibetan, Dai and Hani communities. |
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They then demanded the complete abolition of serfdom, and were not pacified until the young King Richard II personally intervened. |
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By around 1400 serfdom was virtually extinct in England, replaced by the form of tenure called copyhold. |
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Towns and trade revived, and the rise of a money economy began to weaken the bonds of serfdom that tied peasants to the land. |
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Russia, for example, remained largely rural and agricultural, and its autocratic rulers kept the peasants in serfdom. |
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She is also known to have interceded for the release of fellow English exiles who had been forced into serfdom by the Norman conquest of England. |
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In 1805 all serfdom was abolished and land tenure reforms allowed former peasants to own their own farms. |
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This Convention prohibits exposure of children to situations which are dangerous to their health, morals and well-being and to conditions of slavery, debt bondage and serfdom. |
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As examples, the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflicts, are mentioned. |
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To win more army volunteers from the peasant masses, he issued the Manifesto of PoĊaniec, on May 7, suspending serfdom and reducing in half the existing villein service. |
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Shcherbatov remained a lifelong advocate of the monopolization of power by a hereditary ruling class, as well as a strong defender of serfdom on the grounds of its necessity to the state. |
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So, the Walser were pioneers of the liberalisation from serfdom and feudalism. |
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Molokhovets wrote for grander households than Beeton, although ones that were perhaps more constrained than in the past: 1861 also saw the abolition of serfdom. |
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The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was largely a result of this resentment, and even though the rebellion was suppressed, in the long term serfdom was ended in England. |
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The support of the Elector enabled the imposition of serfdom and the consolidation of land holdings into vast estates which provided for their wealth. |
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This was not the case in other countries of Europe like Poland were the peasantry was still bound by serfdom and a strong feudalistic land owning system. |
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Early August 1789 the National Constituent Assembly abolished the privileges of the nobility such as personal serfdom and exclusive hunting rights. |
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Manorial surveys were very common throughout the Middle Ages, in particular in France and England, but faded as serfdom gave way to a money economy. |
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Napoleon's impact on Poland was huge, including the Napoleonic legal code, the abolition of serfdom, and the introduction of modern middle class bureaucracies. |
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Napoleon was responsible for spreading the values of the French Revolution to other countries, especially in legal reform and the abolition of serfdom. |
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Although serfdom declined in Western Europe it became more common in Eastern Europe, as landlords imposed it on those of their tenants who had previously been free. |
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