Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage...

peasants to sue for release from serfdom under certain conditions, and also took measures against abuses of landlord power. Serfdom became the dominant form of...

The Road to Serfdom (German: Der Weg zur Knechtschaft) is a book by the Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek. In the book, Hayek...

Serfdom has a long history that dates to ancient times. Social institutions similar to serfdom occurred in the ancient world. The status of the helots...

The serfdom in Tibet controversy is a prolonged public disagreement over the extent and nature of serfdom in Tibet prior to the annexation of Tibet into...

laws or actions listed chronologically. It also covers the abolition of serfdom. Although slavery of non-prisoners is technically illegal in all countries...

Kingdom; and twice that of China or India. Russia was a late industrializer. Serfdom, which held back development of the wage labor market and created a shortage...

reign of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. The reform effectively abolished serfdom throughout the Russian Empire. The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed...

Serfdom in Poland became the dominant form of relationship between peasants and nobility in early modern Poland during the 16th-18th centuries, and was...

The Serfdom Patent of 1 November 1781 aimed to abolish aspects of the traditional serfdom (German: Leibeigenschaft) system of the Habsburg monarchy through...