"In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market' in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system's destruction"--
"In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market' in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system's destruction"--
Sascha Auerbach is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham and a former Fullbright Scholar and Leverhulme Trust Fellow. He is the author of Armed with Sword and Scales (2022) and Race, Law and 'The Chinese Puzzle' in Imperial Britain (2009).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Maps and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Paper Chains for Iron Chains; 1. 'Not Fit for the Enjoyment of Freedo': Amelioration and the Origins of the Overseer-State 1812-1834; 2. 'To Go and Look for Law': Early Responses to the Overseer-State 1823-1836; 3. 'A Most Imperfect Act of Abolition': Apprenticeship and Early Indenture in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds 1834-1842; 4. 'A System Entirely Favourable to the Poorer Class of Natives': Health Moral Reform and Coercion in the Indenture System 1840-1864; 5. Man In His Natural State ... Must Either be Led by Conviction or by Force': Magistrates Workers' Agency and State Violence 1840-1873; 6. 'They Must Know Their Master and He Must Know Them': Labor Governance and Sovereignty on the Imperial Frontier in Southeast Asia 1867-1890; 7. 'They Have Made the Government Arbitrary Enough': The Decline of the Overseer-State 1870-1904; Conclusion: The Persistent Legacies of the Overseer-State; Bibliography; Index.
List of Maps and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Paper Chains for Iron Chains; 1. 'Not Fit for the Enjoyment of Freedo': Amelioration and the Origins of the Overseer-State 1812-1834; 2. 'To Go and Look for Law': Early Responses to the Overseer-State 1823-1836; 3. 'A Most Imperfect Act of Abolition': Apprenticeship and Early Indenture in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds 1834-1842; 4. 'A System Entirely Favourable to the Poorer Class of Natives': Health Moral Reform and Coercion in the Indenture System 1840-1864; 5. Man In His Natural State ... Must Either be Led by Conviction or by Force': Magistrates Workers' Agency and State Violence 1840-1873; 6. 'They Must Know Their Master and He Must Know Them': Labor Governance and Sovereignty on the Imperial Frontier in Southeast Asia 1867-1890; 7. 'They Have Made the Government Arbitrary Enough': The Decline of the Overseer-State 1870-1904; Conclusion: The Persistent Legacies of the Overseer-State; Bibliography; Index.
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