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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... population during the half-century after the cutting off of legal slave imports in 1808, for example, did not strike historians as especially noteworthy until they realized that elsewhere in the New World the slave population grew only ...
... Culture . 5. Patterns of Resistance 241 6. Protest , Unity , and Disunity . 302 Epilogue : The Crisis of Unfree Labor 359 377 Bibliographical Note . Notes 385 Index 505 . MAPS 1. Blacks as a percentage of the population in Contents.
... population , 1678 and 1719 28 3. Slaves as a percentage of the population in the United States South , by county and state , 1860 55 4. Serfs as a percentage of the population in European Russia , by province , 1858 56 TABLES 52 1 ...
... population during the half - century after the cutting off of legal slave imports in 1808 , for example , did not strike historians as especially noteworthy until they realized that elsewhere in the New World the slave population grew ...
... of living ; over that century Russian serfs experienced increasing division of labor and constituted a declining proportion of the population . In both Russia and America the masters ' attitudes toward bondage underwent X PREFACE.
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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 |