Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
Serdom is for practical purposes a form of slavery. The word is derived from servii, a word which (if I recall correctly) the Romans used for both slaves (property) and actual serfs (men who were supposedly free, but tied to their "employer" by various legal barriers). Even they knew that in practice the two didn't differ much in practice.
I have few problems with equaling serfdom and slavery.