Seigneurial System

Seigneurial system may refer to:

  • Manorialism - the socio-economic system of the Middle Ages and Early Modern period
  • Seigneurial system of New France (Canada)

Famous quotes containing the word system:

    “In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”
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