But however this may have been, the principal attributes of villanage and slavery being thus taken away from them, they now at least became really free, in our present sense of the word freedom.

但是，无论情况如何，村民身份和奴隶制的主要属性因此从他们身上被剥夺，他们现在至少真正获得了自由，即我们现在对自由一词的理解。