Unfree LaborHarvard University Press, 30 Jun 2009 - 553 halaman Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master-bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery. |
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... Williams put it in perhaps the simplest and most starkly economic - determinist form when he argued that slavery re- mained profitable only until " the population has reached the point of density and the land available for appropriation ...
... Williams put it in perhaps the simplest and most starkly economic - determinist form when he argued that slavery re- mained profitable only until " the population has reached the point of density and the land available for appropriation ...
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... Williams's thesis that increasing population density rendered British West Indian slavery unprofitable and led to its abolition in the 1830s has been persuasively refuted.34 The reader of this chapter will have little trouble ...
... Williams's thesis that increasing population density rendered British West Indian slavery unprofitable and led to its abolition in the 1830s has been persuasively refuted.34 The reader of this chapter will have little trouble ...
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... William Penn and his agents who sought to con- vince impoverished Europeans of the boundless opportunities that awaited them in the colony , tens of thousands of indentured servants , many of them German , continued to perform a ...
... William Penn and his agents who sought to con- vince impoverished Europeans of the boundless opportunities that awaited them in the colony , tens of thousands of indentured servants , many of them German , continued to perform a ...
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... William Berkeley , an uprising that achieved momentary success before its leader caught ill and died of the " bloody flux " and his forces disinte- grated . One of a series of violent upheavals that shook the colonies in the 1670s and ...
... William Berkeley , an uprising that achieved momentary success before its leader caught ill and died of the " bloody flux " and his forces disinte- grated . One of a series of violent upheavals that shook the colonies in the 1670s and ...
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... William Byrd — himself a large slaveowner— wrote to the Earl of Egmont in 1736 , congratulating him on the ( tem- porary ) prohibition of slavery in the new colony of Georgia , " They import so many Negros hither , that I fear this ...
... William Byrd — himself a large slaveowner— wrote to the Earl of Egmont in 1736 , congratulating him on the ( tem- porary ) prohibition of slavery in the new colony of Georgia , " They import so many Negros hither , that I fear this ...
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PART I The Masters and Their Bondsmen | 47 |
PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters | 193 |
The Crisis of Unfree Labor | 359 |
Bibliographical Note | 377 |
Notes | 385 |
Index | 505 |
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