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Marx describes the basic social relations of British rural life in the fifteenth century in these terms, as a freeholding peasantry with access to substantial common lands, pasture, and forest:

Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

Marx describes the basic social relations of British rural life in the fifteenth century in these terms, as a freeholding peasantry with access to substantial common lands, pasture, and forest:

Primitive accumulation Daniel Little 2009

Thus, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 called for the breakup of large landed estates and their replacement with a freeholding peasantry as the political backbone of a new country.

Beyond Land Rights 2007

He named a few names-independent business men, freeholding planters, professional people, a clergyman or so.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

The journals in their interest no longer lavish on the freeholding blacks the abuse with which they once teemed, even after the writer went to the island.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Luther rose from the great source of all national strength, the freeholding peasant class.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

The efforts to attain this ideal, now taking the form of popular outbreaks, now of aristocratic legislation were directed, however, for the most part, towards the proper subdivision of the remaining public lands or to the establishment of a freeholding population upon lands which had been acquired by conquest from an enemy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The destruction of the power of the great Tory families, however, had of course diminished the weight of the rich landowning class as a whole; and in the country the decisive power was in the hands of the small freeholding farmers.

XI. The Federalist City. 1783-1800. 1906

I fared better than in freeholding, for I voted for Abraham Lincoln at his first election.

Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

I was a freeman living on a small freeholding at the edge of the fens, a bit of land given my father for his deeds in battle.

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