LEADER 03873nam 2200541Ia 450 001 996247900503316 005 20221108095216.0 010 $a0-674-26517-3 010 $a0-674-03971-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674039711 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396566 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314299 035 $a(OCoLC)923110354 035 $a(DE-B1597)590391 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300287 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396566 100 $a20080921d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnfree labor$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican slavery and Russian serfdom /$fPeter Kolchin 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d1987 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 517p. )$cmaps 311 $a0-674-92097-X 311 $a0-674-92098-8 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aPreface Introduction: The Origin and Consolidation of Unfree Labor PART 1:THE MASTERS AND THEIR BONDSMEN 1. Labor Management 2. Planters, Pomeshchiki, and Paternalism 3. Ideals and Ideology PART 2: 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 330 $bTwo 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. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master-bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery. 606 $aSlave labor$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSerfdom$zRussia$xHistory 615 0$aSlave labor 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 615 0$aSerfdom$xHistory. 676 $a306.362 700 $aKolchin$b Peter$0465093 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247900503316 996 $aUnfree labor$91288816 997 $aUNISA