Sentence examples for serfs from high-quality English sources.

• “You’re just serfs.”

• Officially the serfs were “unfree.”

• Not even Gogol had presented such rounded portrayals of serfs before.

• Stalin’s assault on the Ukrainian peasantry marked the third in a series of attempts to modernise the inherited agrarian order, following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and prime minister Pyotr Stolypin’s attempt in 1912 to transform former serfs into yeoman farmers.

• Bartolomé de Las Casas did own serfs.

• The serfs lived in a village close by.

• At the bottom were the serfs and slaves.

• Serfs were tenant farmers who worked someone else’s land.

Use serfs in a sentence.

• The serfs cultivated the lord’s land as well as their own.

• Some aristocrats captured drifters and illegally made them serfs.

• The first major Russian reform was the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

• The serfs in mines and households were freed but received no economic assets.

• The vast majority were serfs, who lived in a condition of dependent servitude.

• House serfs were freed from their lords by an edict of Tsar Alexander II in 1861.

• At the same time, the landlords were obtaining still greater power over their serfs.

• By the 6th century the servi, or serfs, as the servile peasants came to be called, were treated as an inferior element in society.

serfs sentence examples

• …1861), manifesto issued by the Russian emperor Alexander II that accompanied 17 legislative acts that freed the serfs of the Russian Empire.

• In subsequent decades, Russian trading companies treated Aleuts as they did their own rural population—as serfs, albeit serfs whose labour was tied to fur production rather than agriculture.

• Despite his basic conservatism, he took part in the emancipation of serfs in Russia’s Baltic provinces (1816–19) and also developed a plan for gradually emancipating all of Russia’s serfs (1818).

• …Second Reform Act (1867), the French Third Republic (1875), the triumph of nationalism in Italy and Germany (1871), the establishment of universal manhood suffrage in Germany (1867), equality for the Hungarians in the Habsburg monarchy (1867), emancipation of the serfs in