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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... period during which missing peasants could be hunted ; those who eluded capture for more than five years were for the time being safe . The prohibition of peasant movement , together with the return of peace , led to a partial economic ...
... period to nine years in 1637 and to ten years in 1642 , except for peasants spirited away by landlords , for whom the new search period was fifteen years . The code of 1649 finally abolished the search periods altogether ; henceforth a ...
... periods of indenture , bound to do as their masters ordered , subject to physical chastisement , forbidden to marry without permission , and liable to be bought and sold . Like slaves , some were forcibly separated from their relatives ...
... period between 1650 and 1674 did the number of headrights issued for whites in Virginia fall below 7,900 ; in none between 1675 and 1699 did it rise above 6,000 : 1650-54 : 10,910 1655–59 : 7,926 1660-64 ; 7,979 1665-69 : 10,390 1670-74 ...
... period the slavery imposed was only temporary , but it is significant that the nature of slavery and freedom could remain so ill defined in the 1630s and 1640s . The early colonists were familiar with a continuum of unfree and semifree ...
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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 |