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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... southern slavery . Both masters and slaves blurred the master - slave , white - black distinction and came to see class relationships in racial terms ; as a result , race , no matter how artificial , became an essential component of ...
... southern part was an area of new colonization , as was the East and southeast region , much of which was also ideally suited for agriculture and livestock raising . In contrast , the wooded North and northeast region and Siberia ...
... southern colonies passed a series of laws designed to set blacks off from whites , legitimize slavery , and protect society from potential servile insurrections . These laws ranged from reassurances that conversion to Christianity did ...
... southern borderlands cossacks , their ranks swelled by fresh fugitives , served as a buffer between Russia and the Tatars , sometimes cooperating with the Russian government but usually left free to live their own seminomadic lives.64 ...
... Southern United States 1873 Puerto Rico 1886 Cuba 1871-88 Brazil Emancipation came in varying ways . Often it was gradual and compensated , as in the British colonies , Russia , and most of the northern United States . Sometimes it was ...
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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 |