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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... 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 the two countries . Although serfholders and slaveholders shared ...
... forced labor and opposition to slavery and serfdom , because I intend to deal with them in a sequel in which I will examine the abolition of bondage in the United States and Russia . A couple of technical matters deserve clarification ...
... forced labor . Over the course of generations these labor systems 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 ...
... forcing others to come to Moscow and enter the tsar's service , and creation of a new group of state servitors who owed their position — and hence their allegianceto the tsar . As the state expanded and the power of the tsar grew , a ...
... forced labor of one type or another . Like the Spaniards to the south , although with less success , the English forced Indians to work for them . Indian slavery was most prevalent in South Carolina , where in 1708 the governor ...
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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 |