Bøker av Peter Kolchin

In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms

?First Freedom is the most detailed and thorough study available on the black experience in Alabama during the early years of Reconstruction.?-Societas--A Review of Social History

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.

The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until legally abolished in the mid-19th century. Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time, highlighting their basic similarities while identifying key differences discernible only in comparative perspective.

Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, the book chronologically documents the historical evolution of slavery in the USA