Many Middle Passages ：Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World ( California World History Library )

Publication subTitle ：Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

Publication series ：California World History Library

Author： Christopher > Emma  

Publisher： University Of California Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780520940987

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520252073

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Other Middle Passage: the African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean

2. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858--1866

3. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone

4. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and Voc Voyages to the Cape

5. Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin’s Voyage to Australia

6. “The Slave Trade is Merciful Compared to [this]”: Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists

7. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean c. 1790--1860

8. After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor

9. LA TRATA AMARILLA: the “Yellow Trade” and the Middle Passage, 1847--1884

10. “A Most Irregular Traffic”: the Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade

11. LA TRAITE DES JAUNES: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea

Afterword : “All of It Is Now”

Postscript: GUN--SLAVE CYCLE

Appendix

Contributors

Index

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