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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... society from potential servile insurrections . These laws ranged from reassurances that conversion to Christianity did not require manumission , as in Virginia's act of 1667 and Maryland's of 1671 , to measures prohibiting free blacks ...
... society rather than outcasts from it . Many Americans advocated a United States without blacks , but to imagine a Russia without the peasants was inconceivable ; they were the essence of it — and 90 percent of its population . When ...
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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 |