ISBN:
041577151X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 116 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies v.v. 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
DDC:
306.3/6209165
Keywords:
Slave labor History
;
Slave insurrections History
;
Forced labor History
Abstract:
This volume examines the various abolitionist impulses in the Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy a
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Resisting bondage in the Indian Ocean world; 2 Revolt in Cape Colony slave society; 3 Unfree labour, forced labour and resistance among the Zigula of the Lower Juba; 4 Forced labour and the 1856 revolt on Mayotta; 5 Unfree labour, slavery and protest in imperial Madagascar; 6 Forced labour in Madagascar under Vichy, 1940-42: Autarky, forced labour and resistance on the 'Red Island'; 7 Sugar and servility: Themes of forced labour, resistance and accommodation in mid-nineteenth-century Java
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Forced labourers and their resistance in Java under Japanese military rule, 1942-459 'Unfree' labour on the cattle stations of Northern Australia, the tea gardens of Assam and the rubber plantations of Indo-China, 1920-50; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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