The Causes of Slavery: A Hypothesis |
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According to Postan American South and/or Black Death Brownlow Cambridge Economic History capital accumulation central areas class of servitors Conrad and Meyer decline of serfdom depopulation development of serfdom Domar Dubrovsky economic forces English enserfed the peasants estates expansion of sheep factors of production farm fit my hypothesis free labor free land free worker freedom of peasants Georg Ostrogorsky Glavneĭshie Grekov hired labor History of Europe Ibid increase Ivan the Terrible's izdatel'stvo Jerome Blum Klfuchevsky Krest'fane labor or tenants land/labor ratio landlords large numbers magnates marginal product Medieval Moscow movement of peasants Muscovite government Nieboer non-economic compulsion non-working class non-working landowners North number of servitors op.cit Poland-Lithuania population product of labor profitability of slavery progress and capital rent Rise of Serfdom Russian lands Serfdom in Eastern serfdom or slavery serfs sheep breeding surplus Tatars technological progress Ukraine Wealth of Nations Western Europe Woodman XV century