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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... interest in my work . He will probably not agree with all of my interpretations in this book , but in a very real sense he made its existence possible . Editors at Harvard University Press - Aida D. Donald , Elizabeth Suttell , and Peg ...
... interest of its own in the presence of the peasants and hence their ability to pay taxes , to come to their aid . In 1497 the new legislative code for the first time made general a provision that had occasionally been applied during the ...
... interest in what they were coming to regard as “ their ” peasants . An abrupt reversal of this long - term boom ushered in the second stage of enserfment . Beginning in the 1560s a series of profound shocks plunged Russia into a period ...
... interests by force if necessary , were often successful in stealing peasants from their less fortunate neighbors . Those who suffered most were the mass of relatively poor pomeshchiki ; each of them depended for his livelihood on the ...
... interests of wealthy landowners and frontier authorities on the one side , who favored maintenance of the short , five - year search period , and the more numerous small and medium - size holders on the other , who pressed for tighter ...
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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 |