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Your question is not entirely correct in its premise; a serf is not a slave and does not have an owner. A serf is a subject of a land owner whom the serf would address as lord.
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Why might a serf run away from a manor?
To become free
Spartan slaves or serfs?
The Helots were serfs - bound to their land, providing a percentage of produce to the Spartan state - different from slaves who were owned outright and had no rights.
First African slave owner?
the afrfican owner was Robert Jonson.
Who was meanest slave owner in the world?
They called him Henworth. He has a slave owner who raped and murdered all of his slaves.
What is serf in Russia?
Serfs were the lowest level of workers in most areas of medieval Europe, though in some there were slaves, who were at a lower level. Serfs were not slaves, but were not free to leave the land where they worked. Their obligation with their feudal lord was mutual; he had obligations to them, to provide a place and protect them, just as they had obligations to him, to give a part of the crop, or later, money for rent. Serfs could not be bought or sold. They belonged to the land, not the lord. If the lord sold the land, they went with it. The new owner did not have the option of moving them off the land. Most serfs worked in agriculture, and lived on the land. Some lived in towns or villages, and formed the lowest level of laborers there. They could be cooks helpers, or even cooks. They could work in such trades as weaving. Miners were serfs of a sort. They could be masons' helpers. They did not usually occupy positions that involved mastery of a craft, such as the master masons, or the best cooks, who worked entirely for hire and were free. The serfs without plots of land were called villeins, a word related to the word village. Various customs in various places allowed the serfs to become free, meaning they could leave the land they were born on and go elsewhere. In some cases, when a king needed to populate a new port, for example, they could be freed by running away and staying in the new town for a year. In other cases, such as after the Black Death, they were bribed off their land to farm lands of other lords that had been depopulated. The result is that serfdom ended in some places several generations before the end of the Middle Ages. The technicalities of ending serfdom took longer; for example, serfdom was technically legal in Scotland for four hundred years after it had died out nearly everywhere in the country. And in some places, such as Russia, it remained in practice into the nineteenth century. Loosely, the term serf might be applied to anyone of peasant class, including laboring freemen, cottars, villeins, bordars, and even slaves. This use should be considered rather imprecise, however. Please see the links below for more information.
What do you call a medieval person bound to the land?
Peasant/serf
How can you use the word serf in a sentence?
The serf worked tirelessly in the fields for his lord, without hope of escaping his feudal obligations.
What do you call a owner of a college?
you call an owner of a college a college owner
This is the name given to a type of agricultural worker in pre-industrial history who was obligated to work a specific piece of land for the land owner?
serf.
Where do you get serf in Pokemon Black?
Whats serf
What is a antonym of serf?
A possible antonym of serf could be "free person" or "freeman," as a serf is a person who is bound to the land and essentially owned by a lord, whereas a free person has autonomy and is not bound to servitude.
What is the homonym for serf?
The homonym for "serf" is "surf."
What do you call a woman who is the owner of a business?
a business owner
What do you call a landowner in UK?
I am English , and I call a land - owner , a .. well .. land - owner
What do serf become if they work hard?
In a feudal system, a serf would remain a serf no matter how hard they were to work.
What would a slave call his or her owner?
what do you call a King or Queen master or a loyal name. Mostly to a slaves owner you call them Master.
When did Saint Serf die?
Saint Serf died in 583.
