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This 12 page paper examines the role of Alexander II. Was it significant enough? Could he have done more? The history is explored and questions contemplated. Bibliography lists sources.
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well. The French Revolution would liberate a country. It seems that throughout the world, during this time, there was a new way of thinking. It was a good number of
years since the Enlightenment period, but enlightenment thinking was in the air still. Art would be created at a fervent pace and science was something that was also going through
great strides. It was at the end of that century that the industrial revolution would change things for about half a century. In any event, it seems that one significant
change during the time was the freeing of the serfs in the 1860s. It was actually in 1861 that serfdom--the system that rendered many Russian peasants tied
to their landlords--had been abolished due to the Tsars command (Lynch 28; Starobin 42). Four years after that, slavery in the United States was also declared unlawful through a presidential
order (28). It was Tsar Alexander II who acted to free the serfs. Ironically, he believed that American slavery was inhumane but this was not the case for serfdom; serfdom
after all is something that had operated in Russia for quite some time and was not considered to be slavery (28). He did not free the serfs for such reasons.
It was reasoned that the landowner after all did not own the serf and this was in contrast with the system in the United States where Negro slaves were considered
to be chattel (28). The serfs were not thought to be disposable property but the relationship between the lord and the serf was really based on the land (28). The
serf was simply bound to the lord who owned the land (28). It was a relationship and the serf was not objectified. It was an interesting time in history. By
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