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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... relatively simple . An introductory chapter sets the stage for the rest of the volume , covering the origins , establishment , consolidation , and development of unfree labor in Russia and the United States to the middle of the ...
... relatively short . During the second half of the fifteenth and most of the sixteenth centuries the peasants ' freedom was gradually limited ; then , during the last two decades of the sixteenth century and the first decade of the ...
... peasants would 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.
... relatively short period had less of a commitment to stay put . Nevertheless , peasants of all categories continued to move , both legally at St. George's day and illegally through flight . The St. George's day provision did not so much ...
... relatively poor pomeshchiki ; each of them depended for his livelihood on the labor of only a few peasant families , whose departure threatened not only monetary loss but total ruin . It was these pomeshchiki , therefore , who clamored ...
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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 |