GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -It was a type of debt bondage and indentured servitude that emerged in Europe from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, with parallels and contrasts to slavery, and persisted in certain nations until the mid-nineteenth century. Serfs, unlike slaves, could not be purchased, sold, or exchanged on their own.

Detailed explanation-2: -serfdom, condition in medieval Europe in which a tenant farmer was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord. The vast majority of serfs in medieval Europe obtained their subsistence by cultivating a plot of land that was owned by a lord.