Books by Peter Kolchin

?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

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