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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... institutional support enabled me to take time off from teaching for research and writing . This support includes fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities , the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , the Institute ...
... institution most suitable to developing the economic potential of newly acquired lands in the Americas . At the same time , an upsurge of economic activity and internal colonization in eastern European countries from the Baltic to the ...
... institution would come more and more to resemble chattel slavery . A SHORTAGE of laborers also plagued English settlers in the American colonies , and there , as in Russia , this situation led to the use of physical compulsion to secure ...
... institution in the English colonies . The proximity of the wilderness and of friendly tribes made escape relatively easy for Indian slaves . The absence of a tradition of agricultural work among East Coast Indian males — women ...
... institutions are sometimes abolished , that unprofitable ones may be maintained for noneconomic reasons , and that ideology played a powerful role of its own in the debate over abolition , without making any concessions concerning the ...
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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 |