[Dragaera] Fwd: Peasant fantasy

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> Maybe sharecroppers in the American South after the war would count as a
> peasant class?

There is implication of a current or past feudal aristocracy, and the
Southern Slavocracy (in spite of their best efforts and pretensions) never
did qualify as that.

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>> There is an implication in the term that peasants are serfs or come from
>> a
>> tradition of serfdom, though this isn't always the case.
>
> If I understand correctly, a serf was better than a slave in not being
> considered property, but maybe in some times and places this didn't make a
> big difference.

In some places, yeah, it was little better; but a serf could not, for
example, have his wife and children sold away.