Assertion: peasant | /r/CapableOf | set total program of emancipation
Facets:
value: without compensation
type: OTHER
value: in motion
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: When France's National Assembly and National Convention eliminated all noble prerogatives and peasant duties to their lords, then granted peasants the right to divide up the land they cultivated without any compensation to their former lords, they set in motion a total program of emancipation without compensation that was not matched or fully achieved elsewhere in Europe for more than a century.