Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian SerfdomHarvard University Press, 1 Mar 1990 - 534 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. |
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... Russian serfdom, American slavery, and the comparative study of unfree labor. With all three, I build upon a ... Russian and American bondage, I expand the geographic (and hence the substantive) scope of comparative studies, which with a ...
... Russia , 1678 and 1719 30 3. Male population of Russia , 1795 and 1858 4. Population of the United States South , 1790 and 1860 53 5. Distribution of American slaveowners and slaves by size of holdings , 1860 54 6. Distribution of Russian ...
... Russian and American bondage , I expand the geographic ( and hence the substantive ) scope of comparative studies , which with a couple of notable exceptions have been confined to New World slave societies . American slavery and Russian ...
... Russia and the United States to the middle of the eighteenth century . Despite their specific differences , Russian serfdom and American slavery both emerged under conditions of widespread labor scarcity and became entrenched as systems ...
... Russia . A couple of technical matters deserve clarification . Many ( but not all ) of the Russian population figures are for males only . Since only males were subject to the soul tax that Peter I first imposed on most of the ...
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PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters | 193 |
The Crisis of Unfree Labor | 359 |
Bibliographical Note | 377 |
Notes | 385 |
Index | 505 |