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Cultivation of commercial crops made peasants more independent of their lords. They began to pay the lords in money, and this meant that they could sell their products over a wider area, or even work off the manor for the money they needed for rent.

Even before the Black Death, serfdom was on the way out in some places, notably Scotland and England. The Black Death put sufficient value on agricultural workers to keep manors open that serfs began to have a nearly purely monetary relationship with their lords, leading to greater independence.

Their independence meant they could leave the land they were on for better opportunities elsewhere. Once that was established, they could band together and sometimes felt they had no particular reason to put up with injustice.

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