Название: Kościuszko
Автор: Gardner Monica Mary
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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Although Kościuszko was an ardent farmer, his farm brought him no great returns; and this by reason of the sacrifices that he made to his principles. As a Polish landowner he had many peasants working on his property. By the legislation of that day, common to several countries besides Poland, these peasants were to a great extent under his power, and were compelled to the corvée. Such a condition of things was intolerable to Kościuszko. The sufferings of his fellow-men, equal rights for all, were matters that ever touched him most nearly. Many others of his countrymen were earnestly setting their faces against this abuse of serfdom and, even before the measure was passed by law, as far as possible liberating the serfs on their estates. That at this time Kościuszko entirely freed some of his peasants appears certain. It was not then practicable to give full freedom to the remainder; but he reduced the forced labour of all the men on his property by one-half, and that of the women he abolished altogether. His personal loss was considerable. He was not a rich man. His stipend from America, for one cause or another, never reached him, and thanks to his brother his private means were in so involved a condition that he had to summon his sister to his help and contract various loans and debts.
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T. Korzon, Kościuszko. Cracow, 1894; later edition, 1906 (Polish).
2
Jared Sparks, Writings of George Washington. Boston, 1847.
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Jared Sparks, Writings of George Washington.
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Ibid.
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F. Rychlicki, Tadeusz Kościuszko and the Partition of Poland. Cracow, 18
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T. Korzon,
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Jared Sparks,
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Jared Sparks,
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F. Rychlicki,
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Jared Sparks,
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William Johnson,
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George Washington Greene,
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T. Korzon,
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T. Korzon,
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