17~18세기 초 海南尹氏家의 노비 매입 양상 - 노비 매입 목적과 流入 노비의 성격에 대한 추론

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to examine the sales and purchase patterns of male and female servants by the Haenam Yun family of Yeondong in the latter period of Joseon and reason their goals of selling and buying servants. In the Haenam Yun family, there actively engaged in selling and buying servants from the 17th century to the early 18th century. Their sales and purchases of servants were characterized by the facts that large-scale inflows of male and female servants in the unit of the entire compound family were generalized and that they did not register the names and histories of the servants they purchased in their property documents. It has been commonly understood that they must have made active use of their extensive servant property for agricultural management and land clearing, but it should be noted that the servants not registered on the property list would hardly serve their purpose as continuous supply of labor force and that servant inflows in the unit of family would be very likely to hinder the maximization of labor force. It seems that they must have owned short-term inflow and outflow servants who needed no registering in property documents because their inflows and outflows were frequent and the cycle was short. That explains why they preferred family unit purchases because they were easy to come and go through sales and purchase. However, there should be full-blown considerations into whether they tried to meet short-term needs such as provision of labor force through sales and purchase of servants or pursue price margins from frequent sales and purchases of servants in relation to the servants market in the latter period of Joseon.