Compare Slavery in the United States and Serfdom in Russia.

Slavery in the United States and serfdom in Russia have common features, but there are also differences.

Representatives of the Negroid race, who were brought in shackles from Africa, became slaves in the United States. They performed hard physical labor, they were bought and sold, children were taken away. They were viewed as the property of the person who bought them. The owner could punish and kill – that was his right. All this happened without trial and investigation, no one could accuse the white master who killed the black slave. Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1963 as a result of the civil war between the south and north.

Serfdom existed in Russia until 1961. However, their own Russian people were dependent here. The landowner could sell, give to recruiting, beat, punish, marry and perform other actions. However, it was forbidden to kill a peasant. Of course, there were also murders, sometimes they turned a blind eye to it. However, history knows a case when the Russian landowner Saltychikha was deprived of the nobility and put in a monastery for torturing several dozen serfs to death.