Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

Herausgeber: Lovejoy, Paul E; Rogers, Nicholas

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780714641522
• ISBN-10: 0714641529
• Artikelnr.: 21066622

Autorenporträt

Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Frontiers
Colonization and Slavery in Central America
Land-Labour Relations in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Formation of Grazing Haciendas
The Colours of Property: Brown, White and Black Chattels and their Responses on the Caribbean Frontier
Work, Labour and the Market: The Response of Farmers and Semi-Nomadic Peoples to Colonialism in North-West Mexico
Part II Old Worlds, New Worlds
The Criminalization of 'Free' Labour: Master and Servant in Comparative Perspective
Vagrancy, Impressment and the Regulation of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Freedom at Issue: Vagrancy Legislation and the Meaning of Freedom in Britain and the Cape Colony, 1799-1842
Background to Rebellion: The Origins of Muslim Slaves in Bahia
Part III Aftermath of Abolition
The Transition from Slavery to Migrant
Labour in Rural Brazil
Slavery, the International Labour Market and the Emancipation of Slaves in the Nineteenth Century
Slavery and Pawnship in the Yoruba
Economy of the Nineteenth Century
Freedom and Slavery and the Shaping of Victorian Britain