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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... produced slavery one need not hold that a plentiful supply of labor overthrew it . As for the other criticisms , they amount to the assertions that slavery and unfree labor have existed in many different kinds of societies , serving ...
... produce a surplus despite the low productivity of each individual peasant . At the time of his death in 1661 , for example , B. I. Morozov owned about fifty - five thousand serfs who were located in 336 villages scattered across ...
... produced increasing quantities of tobacco throughout the seventeenth century ; the 20,000 pounds exported in 1619 swelled to 175,590,000 in 1672 and 353,290,000 in 1697 , after which , despite annual fluctuations varying with tobacco ...
... produced no significant demand , were usually left to the state peasants , who eked out a living through subsistence farming and handicrafts . As Englishman Joseph Marshall noted , " Peasants in this empire are in general happy in ...
... produced consequences that in important ways differentiated Russian serfdom from American slavery.78 Historians have hardly dealt with the question of how Russians were so easily able to contradict the general rule that slaves must be ...
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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 |