serf

They did not allow the serfs any freedom.

the serfs had been liberated.

This movement overthrew the serf system and freed a million serfs and slaves.

The serf-owners had the right to beat,abuse or even kill the serfs at will.

In the Middle Ages, a lord and a serf had very different places in life.

The serf worked the land for the lord.

The serf had no rights or freedoms.

The serf was bound to the land.

The serf lived in poverty and servitude.

The serf was at the mercy of the lord.

The serf's labor benefited the feudal system.

The serf longed for freedom and autonomy.

The serf's life was harsh and unfree.

The serf was considered property of the lord.

The serf had no say in his own fate.

Chekhov was born in 1860. His paternal grandfather had been a serf.

You could gamble serfs, real people.

Historians see enormous political and economic impacts. Worker shortages gave serfs more bargaining power and hastened the end of feudalism.

On the way he fell in with some peasants carting manure, a few of Markelov's former serfs.

She said she was his serf, his slave, and she opened her yearning heart and took him in.

And then there's me... the peasant, the serf.

Dressing up as a peasant and walking amongst the serfs.

I get a lot of bad mail from the serfs.

Others were more like European serfs.

But in this virtual reality, we are like serfs, toiling on the lands of medieval lords.