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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... developed essentially “ racial ” features the distinction between nobleman and peasant came to seem as inherent as that between white and black in America — suggests the degree to which race is socially rather than biologically ...
... developed in Chapters 4 , 5 , and 6 were also tested in “ Reevaluating the Antebellum Slave Community : A Comparative Perspective , " Journal of American History , 70 ( Dec. 1983 ) , 579–601 . Although he has not read this manuscript ...
... developed it at the turn of the twentieth century in a book called Slavery as an Industrial System . Noting that slavery rarely existed where a population was dense , Nieboer argued that it could only develop where there existed what he ...
... developed first in the Chesapeake Bay region . As early as 1617 tobacco was grown " in the streets , and even in the market - place of Jamestown " ; a Dutch traveler reported of Maryland and Virginia in 1679 that “ tobacco is the only ...
... developed an aristocratic life - style similar to that of Virginia and Carolina planters . Estates of hundreds and sometimes thousands of acres required a large , steady laboring population , and it is no accident that “ slavery , both ...
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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 |