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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... authorities frequently welcomed fugitives from the center and therefore tended to favor the continuation of free peasant migration . Large landowners and monasteries , who could afford to offer peasants better terms and who had the ...
... authorities on the one side , who favored maintenance of the short , five - year search period , and the more numerous small and medium - size holders on the other , who pressed for tighter restrictions on peasant movement . In 1637 a ...
... authority of the individual or monastery on whose land they lived . They were thus bound not only to their residence but also in effect to their landlords , who became for all practical purposes their owners . During the century ...
... authority on enserfment , put it , " the most important economic factor in the final formation of serfdom was the institution of barshchina agriculture . ” There is evidence of considerable production for market among seventeenth ...
... authorities often welcomed them with open arms ; vagabonds roamed much of the countryside ; and in the southern borderlands cossacks , their ranks swelled by fresh fugitives , served as a buffer between Russia and the Tatars , sometimes ...
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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 |