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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... masters over the lives of their bondsmen was greater in Russia than in the United States . This was especially true of the bondsmen's economic lives . Although serfs did not legally own any landed property , most received from their ...
... masters and bondsmen ; on the whole , Russian serfs were able to lead lives that , although circumscribed by the authority of their owners , were much more independent than those of American slaves . Russian serfdom was a very ...
... masters. For the bondsmen it meant that they would come in contact with outsiders much less often in Russia than in the United States and have correspondingly more opportunity to lead their own lives with a minimum of interference. It ...
... masters ' commitment to forced labor . That gap became fully apparent , however , only gradually , during the first half of the nineteenth century . For numerous reasons southern planters were in a far stronger , more independent ...
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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 |