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Their condition was very different from that of the ordinary slaves in antiquity, and more similar to the villanage of the middle ages.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

But, as the country became more populous, and the attendance of the knights and barons in parliament became more frequent and necessary, we find villanage gradually fall into disrepute.

From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)

Footnote 2: Forced labour, a reminiscence of villanage, surviving in Slavonic countries.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

The rising tide of industrial revolution represented a climax of centuries of grievance; and when the revolt did come, it was as a demand for the manumission of property held in villanage.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

The wages of the laborer were fixed by law to the great advantage of the lordly employer: this, however, was a very natural sequence to the abolition of villanage or vassal servitude.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various