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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... ownership of serfs was confined to a tiny privileged group, and holdings were usually quite large. In this respect Russia and the slave South were at opposite ends of a broad continuum, with other modern Western slave societies falling ...
... slave power , ” and an emancipation conceived and administered by ... masters ' commitment to forced labor . That gap became fully apparent ... MASTERS AND THEIR BONDSMEN.
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. Table 3 Male population ... slaveowners had only a few slaves each : more than twothirds held 9 or fewer and more ... owners . Traditional criteria for categorizing the wealth of Russian ...
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. Table 4 Population of the United States South , 1790 and ... owners Owner family membersh Other whites Total whites Total population ... slaveowners and slaves by size LABOR MANAGEMENT 53.
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. Table 5 Distribution of American slaveowners and slaves by size of holdings , 1860 Number of slaves ... owners with more than 500 male souls each , but in Olonets province in the north none ...
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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 |