Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 23, 2025
But the truth is that the métayer was not a free tenant in the sense which we attach to the word. 'In Limousin, says Arthur Young, 'the métayers are considered as little better than menial servants. And it is not going beyond the evidence to say that they were even something lower than menial servants; they were really a kind of serf-caste. They lived in the lowest misery.
He issued a rigorous fugitive-serf law, and even wrenched liberty from certain free peasants who had entered service for wages before his edicts. This completed the work, and Russia, which never had the benefits of feudalism, had now fastened upon her feudalism's worst curse, a serf-caste bound to the glebe.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking