Peasant
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- A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants. Peasants might hold title to land outright (fee simple), or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.
In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. As early as in 13th-century Germany, the concept of "peasant" could imply "rustic" as well as "robber", as the English term villain/villein. In 21st-century English, the word "peasant" can mean "an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person".The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to ´native´, incorporating all its condescending and racial overtones".
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Schlesische Saisonarbeiterinnen (Schnitter) auf dem Gut Truckenbrodt, 1926
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Der Knecht Franz, Blatt 12 aus der Mappe
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Arbeitsbuch von Elise Wöhlbier (1952)
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Landhelfer-Brief für Marianne Rappin, 1934
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