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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... agricultural production based on forced labor . In Part I , I examine the world of the masters , detailing the management , treatment , and defense of unfree labor and revealing a basic contrast between the two countries . Although ...
... agricultural labor . Both were preeminently systems of forced labor . Over the course of generations these labor systems became consolidated and entrenched . By the middle of the eighteenth century they had reached a level of maturity ...
... agricultural labor . Examination of developments in Russia and the American South thus reveals both the specific events producing bondage in each country and the way in which those events were part of a general trend . The enserfment of ...
... agriculture , but the great bulk of the population consisted of juridically free peasants . They were not an undifferentiated mass : indeed , there were numerous partially overlapping designations , both legal and descriptive , for ...
... Agricultural production increased , new cities burgeoned , trade and small - scale artisanry flourished . A strong , centralized government facilitated commerce , and territorial expansion was accompanied by a concomitant growth in the ...
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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 |