The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis

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Evsey D. Domar · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The purpose of this paper is to present, or more correctly, to revive, a hypothesis regarding the causes of agricultural serfdom or slavery (used here interchangeably). The hypothesis was suggested by Kliuchevsky's description of the Russian experience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it aims at a wider applicability.

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Soviet and Russian History Colonialism, slavery, and trade Historical Economic and Social Studies

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Published in: The Journal of Economic History

Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 18-32

DOI: 10.1017/s0022050700078566

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