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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... kind of independence among the laboring class was one more consideration in its favor , 32 RECENTLY there has been renewed interest among social scientists in forming generalizations about the causes of slavery in particular and forced ...
... kind of labor system that emerged in the American colonies was the degree to which agriculture was geared to market . Although the increased availability of Africans made possible the widespread adoption of slave labor after 1680 ...
... kind of " giddy multitude ” taking part in Bacon's Rebellion . In this sense , as one scholar has written , “ This was a cry for vengeance for the have - nots ... against those that thrived on their misery and enslavement . " Yet ...
... kind of simplification occurred during the first twothirds of the eighteenth century with secularization of the clerical serfs . For centuries the government had been suspicious of the wealth and power of various clerical bodies ...
... kind of social distance between themselves and their peasants necessary for the maintenance of serfdom.79 The second major difference between American slavery and Russian serfdom was in part a consequence of the first . Although ...
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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 |