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The Black Death — How Plague Accidentally Ended Feudalism
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# The Black Death — How Plague Accidentally Ended Feudalism 30-60% of Europe's population died between 1347 and 1353. The survivors inherited labor leverage that permanently restructured feudal economics. When peasants are scarce, landlords compete for them. Wages doubled in a generation. The Statute of Laborers (1351) tried to freeze wages at pre-plague levels. It failed. Serfdom in England effectively ended within two generations of the plague — not because lords became enlightened, but because the economics of compulsion collapsed. The 1381 Peasants' Revolt was suppressed. The underlying shift was not. [Full analysis → node](/node/1110)
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