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American slavery, 1619-1877

American slavery, 1619-1877 more books like this

by Peter Kolchin

An overview of slavery in America in the period between 1619 and 1877. From its origins in the colonial era, the book explores racial attitudes and the development of the social structures of the old South, the characteristics of slave culture and finally the road to abolition.

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Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia 1804-1824

Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia 1804-1824 more books like this

by Aleksandr Nikitenko, Helen Saltz Jacobson (Translator), Peter Kolchin (Foreword by)

In this classic memoir a man born into serfdom in Russia in 1804 documents how he used his wit to obtain freedom by the time he was 20 years old. As a historic record, the memoir reveals the difficult realities suffered by serfs.

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Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom more books like this

by Peter Kolchin

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 ...

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A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective

A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective more books like this

by Peter Kolchin

One reason that the South attracts so much interest is that its history inevitably involves big questions -- continuity versus change, slavery and freedom, the meaning of "race, " the formation of national identity. Because these issues are central to human experience, southern history properly conceived is of more than regional interest. In A ...

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First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction

First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction more books like this

by Peter Kolchin

Crucial changes occurred during the years following the Civil War as blacks manifested their desire to live as independently as possible and to reject every social relation reminiscent of slavery. This study of the history of post-slave societies helped to initiate historiographic trends that remain central to the study of emancipation.

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Une Institution Trės Particuliėre: L'Esclavage Aux Etats-Unis, 1619-1877

by Peter Kolchin

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