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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... holdings , 1860 54 6. Distribution of Russian serfowners and serfs by size of holdings , 1858 54 7. Level of exploitation of obrok serfs in four provinces 151 8. Peasant volneniia , 1796–1855 , by year 322 9. Stratification among serfs ...
... holdings was especially significant , because large planters , who could afford to make the initial investment and whose need for labor was greatest , were the principal purchasers of slaves . In Maryland , for example , the average net ...
... holdings made it easy for them to produce a surplus despite the low productivity of each individual peasant . At the time of his death in 1661 , for example , B. I. Morozov owned about fifty - five thousand serfs who were located in 336 ...
... holdings , cultivating his rye and oats , making potash , and carting his goods to market . He even had a substantial number of peasants who had no allotments of their own and performed exclusively seigneurial labor . Of course , the ...
... land in the fertile southern part of the Black earth center ; from 1700 to 1737 the number of pomeshchik holdings there quadrupled , and the number Table 2 Percentage distribution of peasant population by category in INTRODUCTION 29.
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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 |