Richard B. Allen

Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social and economic history of Mauritius of interest to scholars of slavery and plantation systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780521641258
• ISBN-10: 052164125X
• Artikelnr.: 21046828

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Creating a garden of sugar: land, labor and capital,
1721-1936; Part I. Labor and Labor Relations: 3. A state of continual
disquietude and hostility: maroonage and slave labor, 1721-1835; 4.
Indentured labor and the legacy of maroonage: illegal absence; desertion,
and vagrancy, 1835-1900; Part II. Land and the Mobilization of Domestic
Capital: 5. Becoming an appropriated people: the rise of the free
population of color, 1729-1830; 6. The general desire to possess land:
ex-apprentices and the post-emancipation era, 1839-51; 7. The regenerators
of agricultural prosperity: Indian immigrants and their descendants,
1834-1936; 8. Conclusion.