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Hayek, F. A. (April 1945). "The Road to Serfdom: A Condensation from the book by Friedrich A. Hayek". The Reader's Digest: 2 - 20 – via Internet Archive. The condensed version of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of Reader's Digest (PDF). London: Institute of Economic Affairs. 1999. ISBN 0 255 36530 6.
An excerpt from the book Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor, 1842–1927. The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis , discussion and full online text of Evsey Domar (1970), "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis", Economic History Review 30:1 (March), pp. 18–32.
The code consolidated Russia's slaves and free peasants into a new serf class and pronounced class hereditary as unchangeable (see Russian serfdom). The new code prohibited travel between towns without an internal passport. The Russian nobility agreed to serve in the army, but were granted the exclusive privilege of owning serfs.
While slavery has not been widespread on the territory of what is now Russia since the introduction of Christianity in the tenth century, serfdom in Russia, which was in many ways similar to landless peasantry in Feudal Europe, only ended in February 19th, 1861 when Russian Emperor Alexander II issued The Emancipation of the serfs in 1861 ...
The Jebusites (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ b j ə ˌ s aɪ t s /; Hebrew: יְבוּסִי, romanized: Yəḇūsī) were, according to the books of Joshua and Samuel from the Hebrew Bible, a Canaanite tribe that inhabited Jerusalem, called Jebus (Hebrew: יְבוּס, romanized: Yəḇus, lit.
As part of these reforms, serfdom was legally abolished throughout the kingdom. Peasants were allowed to become free proprietors of land, if they could buy it. Since peasants had no money, they were allowed to pay for the land by giving up their rights to assistance from their landlords and giving up their rights to use common lands for grazing.
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The Stavnsbånd was a serfdom-like institution introduced in Denmark in 1733 in accordance with the wishes of estate owners and the military. It bonded men between the ages of 14 and 36 to live on the estate where they were born. [1] It was possible, however, to purchase a pass releasing one from this bondage.