Possessives

• father: As a result, he was registered under the name of one of his father's serfs.

Converse of object

• emancipate: In 1861, Alexander II had emancipated the serfs.

• free: So the Czar would create revolution and free the serfs - " Better from above than from below.

• starve: Their land and, livestock taken away from them, they have been condemned to the status of starving, landless serfs.

Adjective modifier

• medieval: Medieval Serfs were expected to work for approximately 3 days each week on the lord's land.

• little: All across the land, everyone knew that the little serfs in the kingdom were nothing more that a pack of cheats.

• feudal: Back in feudal times serfs on the land worked with the seasons and daylight.

• former: The former serfs occupy on the average about an acre, paying a rent of from twenty to twenty-four francs.

• predial: The chattel slave was becoming a predial serf, attached to the soil and owing his master certain fixed services and returns in kind.

• illiterate: The influence of the Orthodox Church was very great, particularly over the illiterate serfs and peasantry.

Modifies a noun

• labor: St Petersburg was built largely by forced serf labor at appalling cost of course.

Noun used with modifier

• state: By that time some state serfs had been freed, some individual owners had freed their serfs.

• wage: So it may not simply be wage serfs who are signing up for union membership.