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bondage

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bondage
(in medieval Europe) the condition and status of unfree peasants who provided labour and other services for their lord in return for holdings of land


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We remain in everlasting bondage to the productions of our brain and to the work of our hands.
Or they talked of making the Indians their servants; as if God had destined them for perpetual bondage to the more powerful white man.
And whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as Pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the Florentines.
 
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