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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... relatively easy for Indian slaves . The absence of a tradition of agricultural work among East Coast Indian males — women customarily performed the primary field labor rendered them difficult to train as agricultural laborers . Because ...
... the islands ' laborers . If there were not enough Africans for the West Indies , where the need was greatest , the number available for export to the mainland , which was of relatively small economic importance , was small INTRODUCTION 13.
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Peter Kolchin. which was of relatively small economic importance , was small indeed . Until the last third of the century , most of the slaves imported to the mainland colonies were probably bought ...
... relative supply and hence price ) of labor in the face of high ( indeed growing ) demand that most simply explains the shift in the nature of the colonial labor force . With the founding of the Royal African Company in 1672 , Britain ...
... relatively easy to abolish without serious social dislocations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ; in the rest of this book I shall deal very little with slavery in the North , Nevertheless , it is worth noting that ...
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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 |