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If anyone has good sources on this topic, I’d appreciate them.

Anyway, my general question is focused on the value of slaves compared to serfs, inasmuch as we can contrast the two. Beyond social reasons (the Church frowning on enslaving Christians) and political reasons (serfs migt fit the feudal structure better), was there any real economic difference between slaves and serfs? Could an owner/liege generally expect x bushels of grain from a slave and y bushels from a serf? Was the potentially lower cost of maintaining serfs off set by the opportunity cost of not being able to sell them?

Basically, setting aside all but the most tangental non-economic considerations (though we can find economics in almost everything), how did serfdom and slavery stack up against each other?
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