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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... group of unfree Russians known as kholopy and usually denominated slaves in English . ? Constituting perhaps 10 percent of the population , they were a diverse group : among them were high - status persons who served in administrative ...
... groups sold themselves into theoretically temporary bondage that almost always lasted for life . This modified slavery often served essentially a welfare function , with those on the margins of society voluntarily going into slavery in ...
... 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 revolution 5 in the system of landholding contributed substantially to the emergence 4 ...
... groups of families , in search of food , livelihood , and security . Some joined roving bands that foraged and pillaged throughout the countryside , and others eventually wound up on the lands of nearby magnates or monasteries . Many ...
... groups : Privately held peasants Clerical peasants Court peasants State peasants 2.3 million ( 53.5 % ) 0.7 million ( 16.3 % ) 0.4 million ( 9.3 % ) 0.9 million ( 20.9 % ) Thus , serfs ( privately held and clerical ) made up about seven ...
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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 |