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Serfdom was the
status of many
peasants under feudalism,
specifically relating to manorialism, and
similar systems. It was a
condition of debt bondage...
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system in 17th-century Qing China. It is
often directly translated as "
bondservant",
although sometimes also
simply rendered as the
common word, slave,...
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author as "Simon Peter" (in some translations, 'Simeon' or 'Shimon'), a
bondservant and
apostle of
Jesus Christ" (2
Peter 1:1). The
epistle is traditionally...
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absorptive layers of bureaucracy. The
department was
manned by booi, or "
bondservants", from the
Upper Three Banners. By the 19th century, it
managed the activities...
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decrees that
cancelled all the
rural (but not commercial) debt and
allowed bondservants to
return to
their homes. Customarily,
rulers did it at the beginning...
- of the
Kangxi emperor. The
transfer of
families from Han
Banners or
Bondservant status (Booi Aha) to
Manchu Banners,
switching their ethnicity from Han...
- make a
difficult decision when one of
their settlers reveals he is a
bondservant and asks for help
freeing himself and his
identical twin
brother from...
- tanners, shamans, entertainers, and nobi, the
equivalent of slaves,
bondservants, or serfs. In 1592 and
again in 1597, the ****anese
invaded Korea; the...
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Chinese clan that was
brought into
personal service (as booi aha or
bondservants of Cigu Niru) to the
Manchu royalty in the late 1610s. His ancestors...
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Hebrew term is ambiguous), and
urged her
husband to cast out
Hagar the
bondservant and her son, so that
Isaac would be Abraham's sole heir.
Abraham was...
