serf system

It reminds us in the West of what we’d associate with a serf system.

Does restoring the serf system go along with human rights?"

Labour shortages after the mid-14th century Black Death were among the factors that broke the serf system.

He wants to restore the feudal serf system.

A woman who works as a cleaner watches the commercial for the SerfBoard at Serf Systems.

A neighbour remembered that dissolution of the serf system meant that he could have his first taste of rich yak butter tea.

Because of this, they were harshly criticized by the Štadler's Croatian Catholic Association that advocated an end to the serf system.

"China abolished the feudal serf system [in Tibet] just as President Lincoln freed the black slaves.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman praised what he called Tibet's "democratic reforms," saying that in the past the people of the province had labored under a "dark serf system."

A Decree of 12 December 1796 set up a serf system on the territory of South Ukraine and Caucasus by attaching peasants to the land.

Each autumn Broome Farm, a specialist cider farm in the Wye Valley, operates a sort of modern-day serf system to bring in its apple harvest.

It also promoted Christian morals, and unlike the HNZ, the HKU advocated the abolition of the serf system as they had no relations with the Muslims.

"That is those Congressmen in the United States who have been declaring themselves to be champions of human rights in Tibet are supporting the restoration of the serf system in Tibet.

The thirteenth Dalai Lama had reformed the pre-existing serf system in the first decade of the 20th century, and by 1950, slavery itself had probably ceased to exist in central Tibet, though perhaps persisting in certain border areas.

When the new holiday was announced in January, the state media reported that it was intended to "thoroughly reveal the vicious nature of the feudal serf system and the ulterior political purpose of the 1959 armed rebellion by the Dalai Lama group".