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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... similar as systems of bondage ; Russian serfdom had by the second half of the eighteenth century become essentially a variant of slavery , much closer to American chattel slavery than to the serfdom of , say , medieval France . They ...
... similar social and economic roles in the development of the two countries . * * THE ESTABLISHMENT of these labor systems can be approached on two levels , the specific and the general . Concrete historical circumnstances produced ...
... slaves in a society ” and concluded that slavery " developed for entirely different reasons in different kinds of social systems . ” Frederic L. Pryor reached a similar conclusion , and Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers INTRODUCTION 17.
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. a similar conclusion , and Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers have recently argued that in Africa slavery usually served political or social , not economic , needs and have rejected ...
... similar effect . But the most general ingredient was the expansion of agricultural production , whether stimulated by growing foreign or domestic demand . When land was plentiful and labor scarce , such increased production was feasible ...
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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 |