| Eventually, Roman slavery was transformed into serfdom, a form of servitude that mitigated some of the harsher features of the older system. |
| Originally staged in January 1904, the play is set after the abolishment of serfdom, but well before the Bolshevik Revolution. |
| For centuries, serfdom was a way of life for most Russian peasants who did not own any land. |
| In the Middle Ages, body serfdom frequently involved merely a right to claim payments. |
| Ninety per cent of the peasantry was stuck in a serfdom that offered few ways out. |
| It's the best set of opinions I've seen yet on the current attempts to pound the populace into digital serfdom. |
