What role did the coloni play in the Late Empire? How did their social standing change, and was the change entirely negative?
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The coloni represented a significant labor force in the Late Empire, as well as a forerunner of serfdom. Coloni became tied to the estates of the landowners for whom they worked; the landowners in turn offered protection and community. Thus, the formerly free peasant and sometimes the landowner surrendered a bit of personal freedom in order to find safety in numbers. Initially similar to a form of sharecropping or tenant farming, coloni eventually found themselves unable to leave the service of the landowner, whether through impoverishment or through restrictions on access, and worked on a self-sufficient estate similar to the manor found in the medieval world.
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