“I hardly care who it is, whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf.”

“Neither a serf nor a villein rightfully owned the land upon which he worked.”

“As a result, the personal freedom of the serf was restricted in a number of ways.”

“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.”

“In the Middle Ages, body serfdom frequently involved merely a right to claim payments.”

“The Village Assemblies, too, have become worse than they were in the days of serfage.”

“The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom.”

“It is the rent that kings took for allowing the serfs and others to work the land that the kings owned.”

“Obviously a good grovel is as necessary today as it was in the days of serfs.”

“The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 left the countryside in deep poverty.”