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Joseph II and Domestic Reform
Joseph II is plowing the field near Slawikowitz in rural southern Moravia in 1769.
Despite the attempts to improve the fate of the peasantry, Joseph's land reforms met with the resistance of the landed nobility and serfdom was not abolished in the Empire until 1848.
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