serfage

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serfage

(ˈsɜːfɪdʒ)

another word for serfdom

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Serfage

a body of serfs, 1864; serfhood, 1841.

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Servage

References in periodicals archive ?

(113.) Brodie, supra note 9, at 390 ("Every form of compulsory service, including serfage and peonage, as well as slavery, clearly was abolished by the [Thirteenth] Amendment.").

The Thirteenth Amendment and the lost origins of civil rights

so that, in effect, though the name of serfage is no longer used, this condition exists in spirit and almost in fact".