Answer: The serfs were unable to purchase the land on which they had worked and were poor and discontent.
Step-by-step explanation:
Much like the enslaved people of America, when the Serfs gained freedom in Russia, they were very impoverished and even though they were granted land, in most cases they had to rent land from the land owners much like African Americans had to engage in sharecropping.
This led to them having to pay huge rents with the crops they farmed and sometimes they would have nothing left. They were therefore free but poor, discontent and under economic bondage.