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American slavery, 1619-1877

American slavery, 1619-1877 more books like this

by Peter Kolchin

A striking new interpretation of the "peculiar institution" that deformed American history from colonial times to our own is to be found in this informed, modern history of slavery and development. Kolchin's exploration of the slave experience displays a subtlety missing from earlier accounts.

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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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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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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

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