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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... . Community and Culture 195 5. Patterns of Resistance 241 6. Protest, Unity, and Disunity 302 Epilogue: The Crisis of Unfree Labor 359 Bibliographical Note 377 Notes 385 Index 505 MAPS 1. Blacks as a percentage of the population in ...
... . Community and Culture 195 5. Patterns of Resistance 241 6. Protest, Unity, and Disunity 302 Epilogue: The Crisis of Unfree Labor 359 Bibliographical Note 377 Notes 385 Index 505 MAPS 1. Blacks as a percentage of the population in ...
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... population, 1678 and 1719 28 3. Slaves as a percentage of the population in the United States South, by county and state, 1860 55 4. Serfs as a percentage of the population in European Russia, by province, 1858 56 TABLES 1. Estimate of ...
... population, 1678 and 1719 28 3. Slaves as a percentage of the population in the United States South, by county and state, 1860 55 4. Serfs as a percentage of the population in European Russia, by province, 1858 56 TABLES 1. Estimate of ...
Halaman ix
... population during the half-century after the cutting off of legal slave imports in 1808, for example, did not strike historians as especially noteworthy until they realized that elsewhere in the New World the slave population grew only ...
... population during the half-century after the cutting off of legal slave imports in 1808, for example, did not strike historians as especially noteworthy until they realized that elsewhere in the New World the slave population grew only ...
Halaman x
... of living; over that century Russian serfs experienced increasing division of labor and constituted a declining proportion of the population. In both Russia and America the masters' attitudes toward bondage underwent significant X PREFACE.
... of living; over that century Russian serfs experienced increasing division of labor and constituted a declining proportion of the population. In both Russia and America the masters' attitudes toward bondage underwent significant X PREFACE.
Halaman xii
... population figures are for males only. Since only males were subject to the soul tax that Peter I first imposed on most of the population, women were usually ignored in the ten national censuses conducted between 1719 and 1858. Sources ...
... population figures are for males only. Since only males were subject to the soul tax that Peter I first imposed on most of the population, women were usually ignored in the ten national censuses conducted between 1719 and 1858. Sources ...
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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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