Q23

[tzyc]

Western hemisphere is mainly refered to the North and South America right?
It just says a quarter of all white people were members of slave owning families in Russia, and says "only 2% of slaves worked on plantation where more than a hundred slaves worked" in the south U.S.
I thought C could contradict then...How can we use it as a principle?
Though the % may be smaller in the U.S, the total number might be bigger.
Then, the number of rebellion (of the one with more than a hundred slaves) in the U.S might be more or less than Russian's dependion on the number (which would contradict the last sentence maybe...)
Or is the last sentence telling the absolute number in the U.S. is smaller as well?
Or instead...the last sentence's "plantation" and "estate" are actually not specified as the one with more than a hundred slaves, so that's why C would work as a principle?

Also...
The differences are mainly talked in the last paragraph, but does it talk about "different kinds" as the last sentence of the 1st paragraph says? I think the last paragraph just mentions which is more common, so I thought the kind is the same, but just number is different...
What did I miss?

Thank you

[ohthatpatrick]

Yes, Western Hemisphere refers to North and South America primarily.

I'm not sure if you got confused by thinking the word "principal" (meaning 'main / primary') was "principle".

We have to start attacking this question by answering this question: "What was Kolchin's principal conclusion regarding the relationship of demographics to rebellion among Russian serfs and US slaves"?

I didn't hear you identify your answer to that question specifically, so I want to make sure you realize that that is the place to start.

Lines 35-37 hint at what we're looking for. It says that "different demographics explains different forms of resistance". (THAT'S the relationship Kolchin found)

We need to be able to spell out:
what demographics did they have in the US?
what type of resistance?
vs.
what demographics did they have in Russia?
what type of resistance?

So let's fill in those blanks

what demographics did they have in the US?
1/4 of all White people belonged to slave owning families, who lived on the same land as their slaves and interacted directly with them ... there was almost never more than 100 slaves in the same plantation

what demographics did they have in the Russia?
very few Russian nobles had serfs ... the nobles didn't directly interact with the serfs ... almost all the serfs were part of groups of more than 100 serfs.

how did the type of resistance differ?
Organized armed rebellions were common in Russia (40-42), while
the resistance in the US was less collective than the type of rebellion shown in Russia (55-57), i.e. the US slaves did NOT have big group protests.

So we need an answer that says "if your owner doesn't directly interact with you and if you're clumped with over 100 other slaves, you're more likely to have an organized, serious rebellion."

(Or the flipside ... if your owner DOES directly interact with you and you're NOT clumped with over 100 other slaves, you're less likely to have an organized, collective rebellion)

As you noticed, (C) seems to go against the general gist that rebellions in the US were LESS organized and collective. BUT, this answer is saying when there WERE organized and collective rebellions in the Western Hemisphere, they were associated with the same demographics we typically saw in Russia.

Hope this helps.