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Who do peasants work for?
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March 24, 2011 1:44PM
Theoretically, peasants worked for themselves, using the funds from sales of agricultural to pay rent to landowners. In essence, they could be considered an early form of the "share-cropper." Peasants were, in a broader sense of the word, sometimes defined as being anyone not of noble blood and so were "ruled" by the nobility.
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