Table of Contents

Introduction Stanley L. Engerman 1. Slavery and freedom in the early modern world David Eltis 2. Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases Seymour Drescher 3. After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective Peter Kolchin 4. From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labour system in nineteenth-century America Leon Fink 5. Changing legal conceptions of free labor Robert J. Steinfeld 6. Race, labor and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest David Roediger 7. 'We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work': freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation Amy Dru Stanley 8. Free labor, law and American trade unionism David Brody 9. Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream Clayne Pope Notes Index.

About the Author

Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is perhaps best known for the influential Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, which he wrote with Robert W. Fogel.