Egyptian peasants played a big role in robbing tombs and selling the artifacts to collectors.
Similarly, while there is no legal right to sell land, peasants in much of southern China have sold their land rights to their neighbors.
The peasants sell their hay produce in Vienne.
Nevertheless, peasants still brought food to the ghetto and sold it for gold, clothes, and other necessities.
In the mid-1980s food items were also available in free markets, where peasants sold their produce, and in privately owned restaurants.
During poor harvests and famine, many peasants would voluntarily sell themselves into slavery in order to survive.
And there has to be enough that the peasants will sell it willingly.
In the old days, less-than-scrupulous peasants sold gullible city folks baby pigs in tied sacks.
With inflation galloping and stores in the cities offering little to buy, why should the peasants sell?
Incidentally, he provided no source for his assumption that impoverished peasants sold their labor as pastors.