serfdom

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Recent Examples on the Web The pandemic decreased competition among laborers, raising wages and putting the oppressive system of serfdom in a death spiral. Cody Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023 All designed to warn us that behind the veneer of jurisprudential poise and Middle American decency, Amy Coney Barrett is some theocratic medievalist monster, primed to send women back to the kitchen, African-Americans back to the plantations, and the country back to serfdom. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020 Birmingham sketches out Russia’s mid-century byzantine chaos with a deft hand, up to the point in 1849 when Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for associating with the Petrashevsky Circle, a progressive group that advocated the ending of serfdom and other measures inimical to czarist autocracy. Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021 Much of the population, just a couple of generations away from serfdom, lived in abject poverty. Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for serfdom 

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“Serfdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serfdom. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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