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Unfree Labor : American Slavery and Russian Serfdom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1987Copyright date: ©1990Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (535 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674039711
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unfree LaborDDC classification:
  • 306.3/62
LOC classification:
  • HD4861
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Origin and Consolidation of Unfree Labor -- PART I The Masters and Their Bondsmen -- 1. Labor Management -- 2. Planters, Pomeshchiki, and Paternalism -- 3. Ideals and Ideology -- PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters -- 4. Community and Culture -- 5. Patterns of Resistance -- 6. Protest, Unity, and Disunity -- Epilogue: The Crisis of Unfree Labor -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until legally abolished in the mid-19th century. Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time, highlighting their basic similarities while identifying key differences discernible only in comparative perspective.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Origin and Consolidation of Unfree Labor -- PART I The Masters and Their Bondsmen -- 1. Labor Management -- 2. Planters, Pomeshchiki, and Paternalism -- 3. Ideals and Ideology -- PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters -- 4. Community and Culture -- 5. Patterns of Resistance -- 6. Protest, Unity, and Disunity -- Epilogue: The Crisis of Unfree Labor -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index.

The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until legally abolished in the mid-19th century. Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time, highlighting their basic similarities while identifying key differences discernible only in comparative perspective.

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