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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... contrast between the two countries . Although serfholders and slaveholders shared certain characteristics as beneficiaries of the forced labor of human property , historical conditions produced two very different master classes , whose ...
... contrast to its continuing decline in the more economically advanced nations of western Europe . ' Shortage of labor provides the essential link between the specific delineation of how bondage emerged in particular locations and the ...
... contrast , the wooded North and northeast region and Siberia , although areas of sparse settlement , were inhospitable to agriculture because of their harsh climate . ( An eighth region , the newly acquired Left - bank Ukraine , not ...
... contrast was not absolute and legally it was nonexistent . Not all serfs had their own allotments . A small number of agricultural laborers and much larger number of house serfs worked full - time for their owners and received ...
... contrast between the distribution of bondsmen in Russia and in the United States. In the latter ownership of slaves was broadly based among the white population and typical holdings were small; in the former ownership of serfs 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 |