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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... important respects my approach differs from theirs. Most basic, by comparing Russian and American bondage, I expand the geographic (and hence the substantive) scope of comparative studies, which with a couple of notable exceptions have ...
... important respects my approach differs from theirs . Most basic , by comparing Russian and American bondage , I expand the geographic ( and hence the substantive ) scope of comparative studies , which with a couple of notable exceptions ...
... important similarities in their experiences , a crucial distinction emerges : the masters -- and bondage in general — impinged less on the everyday lives of the serfs than on those of the slaves . In both countries the bondsmen's lives ...
... leave one landlord to rent from another who promised better terms . Still , the very ability to move in a time of relative labor scarcity served as an important safeguard to the peasants and a major annoyance INTRODUCTION 3.
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. an important safeguard to the peasants and a major annoyance to landholders . The latter , therefore , strove to limit their dependents ' ability to move . They loaned peasants money ...
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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 |