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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... became an essential component of American master - slave relations , In two additional respects this book takes a broader focus than most recent comparative studies . First , I cover a wide temporal span , beginning with the ...
... became entrenched as systems of agricultural production based on forced labor . In Part I , I examine the world of the masters , detailing the management , treatment , and defense of unfree labor and revealing a basic contrast between ...
... became consolidated and entrenched . By the middle of the eighteenth century they had reached a level of maturity ; class lines hardened , and relationships that had once been tentative came to seem inherent and immutable . Russian ...
... became solidified and codified , and Russian serfdom came increasingly to resemble chattel slavery . Before the establishment of serfdom there already existed a significant group of unfree Russians known as kholopy and usually ...
... became the center of a far - flung empire ; from 1462 to 1533 the area controlled by the Muscovite state increased about sevenfold , and during the remainder of the sixteenth century it doubled again . This geographic expansion was ...
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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 |