Assertion: peasant | /r/CapableOf | compose a majority of the population
Facets:
value: by the mid-19th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: By the mid-19th century, the peasants composed a majority of the population, and according to the census of 1857 the number of private serfs was 23.1 million out of 62.5 million Russians, 37.7% of the population.