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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... servants , artisans , and agricultural laborers . Some were allotted land to work on their own and lived like peasants , but most lived in or near the households of their owners and served to increase their prestige and comfort rather ...
... servants and occasional laborers in the other colonies : New Jersey wills reveal the continued presence of small numbers of Indian slaves in that colony as late as the middle of the eighteenth century . ! ? For a variety of reasons ...
... servants became prosperous and influential in later life , for most the future was decidedly less rosy . In the mid - seventeenth century close to half the servants in Virginia and Maryland died before their terms of indenture were ...
... servants were readily available , their labor continued to make sense to most colonists . ? Precisely such conditions prevailed during the first three - quarters of the seventeenth century , when the population of the colonies was small ...
... servants were only temporarily bound and did not produce new servants , as the colonial population grew the number of servants imported would have had to increase sharply in order for them to form a constant proportion of the population ...
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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 |