朝鮮時代 社會經濟史의 硏究史的檢討(2) = An Examination of the History of Studies on Socio-economic History in the Chosen Dynasty(2)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Analysing the laws on slaves, recorded in the criminal law of codes such as Koryosa Hyungbubji; (高麗史刑法法) Kyungkukdaejeon(經國大典) and others, we can find that they consist of the Sejeon of slaves, the relationship between public slaves and private slaves, the rules on Singong(身貢) and Chushoe(推刷), and the rules on Hyungsal(刑殺). But all the items are thought to have supported the class interests of the two upper classes who owned the slaves. Considering, in general, that there were more rules on slaves than those on land, slaves were the sources of not only social products but also human resources. As almost all the slaves were criminals or their descendants, the laws were about punishment.
Though slaves' occupation was agriculture, they were often engaged in a variety of jobs. Solgeo slaves(率居奴婢) were charged with the meanest duties in the patriarchal system, but they had only a few rights. That is, they could prosecute their masters only when their masters tried to rebel against the king. On the other hand, the masters were not indicted even though they killed their private slaves.
Oyegeo slavcs(外居奴婢), both public and private, should offer Singong or physical effort for their masters for a certain duration. Though they could cultivate the mastes' land, they could not possess the land. Thus, they were tightly tied to the land and their masters.
According to the socio-economic states of the slaves, they can be classicied as three classes such as slaves, serfdoms and feudal subordinates. But a lot of doubts are suggested about the viewpoint that there were ancient slaves and medieval serfs together in the Chosun Dynasty. It is thought that there should be much investigation into concrete conditions of the slaves in the Chosun Dynasty.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 序論
• 2. 15,16世紀의 奴婢法 檢討
• 3. 朝鮮時代 奴婢의 社會經濟史的 處地檢討
• 4. 結論