Analyzing William Beaumont's relationship with his experimental subject, Alexis St. Martin, this article demonstrates how the "research ethics" of antebellum America were predicated on models of employment, servitude, and labor. The association between Beaumont and St. Martin drew from and was understood in terms of the ideas and practices of contract labor, informal domestic servitude, indentures, and military service. Beaumont and St. Martin lived through an important period of transition in which personal master-servant relations existed alongside the "free" contract labor of market capitalism. Their relationship reflected and helped constitute important developments in nineteenth-century American labor history.
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机译：本文分析了威廉·博蒙特（William Beaumont）与他的实验对象亚历克西斯·圣马丁（Alexis St. Martin）的关系，展示了战前美国的“研究伦理”是如何建立在就业、奴役和劳动模式之上的。博蒙特和圣马丁之间的联系借鉴了合同工、非正式家庭奴役、契约和兵役的思想和实践，并被理解为合同工。博蒙特和圣马丁经历了一个重要的过渡时期，在这个时期，个人主仆关系与市场资本主义的“自由”合同劳动并存。他们的关系反映并帮助构成了十九世纪美国劳工史上的重要发展。
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