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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... fugitives . Peasants also sought refuge in the far north , along the desolate borders of the White Sea , and across the frontiers of Sweden , Lithuania , and Poland . Documents from the 1570s and 1580s reveal an extraordinary ...
... fugitives : “ from these households the inhabitants left for who knows where , and some died . ” British ambassador Giles Fletcher wrote in 1588 of " many villages and towns ... uninhabited , the people being fled all into other places ...
... fugitives to find employment . As a result , the flight of indentured servants was a common and widely lamented occurrence . The colonies adopted stringent penalties for fugitives , usually involving their serving additional time and ...
... fugitives from the north seeking to escape bondage . Thus , in the East and southeast the number of privately held serfs more than tripled between 1678 and 1719 and increased from 44 to 66 percent of the peasant population . Pomeshchiki ...
... fugitives from the center of the country swarmed south , where local authorities often welcomed them with open arms ; vagabonds roamed much of the countryside ; and in the southern borderlands cossacks , their ranks swelled by fresh ...
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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 |