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Some Recent Works on Slavery Outside the United States: An American Perspective. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Peter Kolchin
Peter Kolchin
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University of Delaware
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Slavery and Class
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 767 - 777
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1986

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1 A major generalizing work that is not discussed in this review, because it appeared too late for inclusion, is Davis, David Brion, Slavery and Human Progress (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).Google Scholar

2 Kopytoff, Igor and Miers, Suzanne, “African ‘Slavery’ as an Institution of Marginality,” in Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, Miers, Suzanne and Kopytoff, Igor, eds. ([Madison:] The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977), 68;Google ScholarPatterson, Orlando, “The Structural Origin of Slavery: A Critique of the Nieboer-Domar Hypothesis from a Comparative Perspective,” in Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies, Rubin, Vera and Tuden, Arthur, eds., in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, CCXCII (1977), 25, 15.Google Scholar For prominent works emphasizing the scarcity of labor as the central cause of slavery, see Nieboer, H. L., Slavery as an Industrial Syste?n: Ethnological Researches (2nd. ed., revised; The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910):Google ScholarWilliams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944);Google Scholar and Domar, Evsey D., “The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis,” Journal of Economic History, XXX (1970), 18–32.Google Scholar

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7 See, e.g., Hughes, Henry, Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968; orig. pub., 1854),Google Scholarpassim; Hammond, James H., “Speech on the Admission of Kansas …, March 4, 1858,” in Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina (New York: John F. Trow & Co., Printers, 1866), 319;Google Scholar and Matthew, Estes, A Defence of Negro Slavery as It Exists in the United States (Montgomery, Ala.: Press of the “Alabama Journal,” 1846), 130.Google Scholar On southern discomfort with the word “slavery,” see Greenberg, Kenneth S., “Revolutionary Ideology and the Proslavery Argument: The Abolition of Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina,” Journal of Southern History, XLII (1976), 365–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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11 This document was first published by Schwartz, Stuart, in “Resistance and Accommodation in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Slaves' View of Slavery,” Hispanic American Historical Review, LVII (1977), 69–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

12 Peter, Kolchin, “The Process of Confrontation: Patterns of Resistance to Bondage in Nineteenth-Century Russia and the United States,” Journal of Social History, XI (1978), 459–65, 470–78.Google Scholar

13 For comparative studies of resistance, see Genovese, Eugene D., From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the New World (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979);Google Scholar and Kolchin, , “The Process of Confrontation.”Google Scholar