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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American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. Although in this volume I build upon the work of other scholars , in a number of important respects my approach differs from theirs . Most basic , by comparing Russian and American ...
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. the nature of this slavery . The number of high - status slaves decreased , and hereditary slavery increasingly gave way to “ limited service contract slavery , ” under which ...
... slaves during their periods of indenture , bound to do as their masters ordered , subject to physical chastisement ... slavery to replace indentured servitude : throughout most of the seventeenth century white laborers , not black ...
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. concern , especially by the early eighteenth century , when slave ... slaves too attempted to escape , it was more difficult for them to succeed . Their color made them easily ...
... slavery usually served political or social , not economic , needs and have rejected “ unstated assumptions that slavery has to do primarily with labor , and that labor has to do with agriculture . ” Finally , Eric Williams's thesis that ...
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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 |