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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... freedom and in Russia the enserfment of a population most of which had been juridically free all along . This remarkable growth in the use of unfree labor along the periphery of an expanding Europe stood in marked contrast to its ...
... freedom of movement was thus gradually curtailed , but by no means abolished , during a period of more than a century . One of the basic factors leading to this erosion of peasant freedom was the centralization and expansion of the ...
... freedom than the serfs ; their status was thus in some respects similar to that of free blacks in the slaveholding United States , like whom they were “ slaves without masters . ” Peasants owned by the tsar - known as court peasants ...
... freedom . In 1639 , for example , a white man , “ John Kempe , for filthy , uncleane attempts with 3 yong girles , was censured to bee whiped very severely , and was committed for a slave . ” In this case and several others from the ...
... freedom was a vague concept , and the lot of most laborers , white and black , was to one extent or another unfree , now the assumption was practically universal among whites that slavery was the natural state of blacks and freedom that ...
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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 |