Author: Peter Kolchin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674920989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Kolchin compares the world of masters and the world of slaves in U.S. and Russian nonfree labor systems. He theorizes that while southern states in the U.S. existed as slaveowner's communities, the rural Russian communal landcape was severely influenced by the bargaining power of peasant bondsmen.