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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... Virginia , settlers received a headright - often fifty acres — for every person they imported . But even without such incentives , colonists eagerly snapped up newly arriving stocks of servants , who performed vital functions as ...
... Virginia and Maryland died before their terms of indenture were complete ; once freed , many males continued to labor for others , living in their households and often because of the excess of men over women - remaining unmarried.19 ...
... Virginia alone.22 If the supply of servants seemed abundant during most of the seventeenth century , that of slaves was limited at best . The English were latecomers to the African slave trade which , throughout the first twothirds of ...
... Virginia between 1650 and 1654 were the equivalent of more than 57 percent of the colony's estimated population in the former year ; the 10,390 issued between 1665 and 1669 were only equal to about 29 percent of the population in 1670 ...
... Virginia.26 The result was a rather abrupt decline in the number of British immigrants to the colonies . In no five - year period between 1650 and 1674 did the number of headrights issued for whites in Virginia fall below 7,900 ; in ...
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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 |