TY - GEN T1 - Slavery by any other name : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique T2 - Reconsiderations in southern African history. A1 - Allina, Eric LA - English PP - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn793806502 AB - Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter and built a vast forced labor regime camouflaged by the rhetoric of the civilizing mission. Oral testimonies from more than one hundred Mozambican elders provide a vital counterpoint to the perspectives of colonial officials detailed in the archival records of the Mozambique Company. Putting elders' voices into dialogue with officials' reports, Eric Allina reconstructs this modern form of slavery, explains the impact this coercive labor system had on Africans' lives, and describes strategies they used to mitigate or deflect its burdens. In analyzing Africans' responses to colonial oppression, Allina documents how some Africans succeeded in recovering degrees of sovereignty, not through resistance, but by placing increasing burdens on fellow Africans--a dynamic that paralleled developments throughout much of the continent. This volume also traces the international debate on slavery, labor, and colonialism that ebbed and flowed during the first several decades of the twentieth century, exploring a conversation that extended from the backwoods of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe borderlands to ministerial offices in Lisbon and London. Slavery by Any Other Name situates this history of forced labor in colonial Africa within the broader and deeper history of empire, slavery, and abolition, showing how colonial rule in Africa simultaneously continued and transformed past forms of bondage. OP - 255 CN - HD4875.M85 A45 2012eb SN - 0813932750 SN - 9780813932750 SN - 1280489472 SN - 9781280489471 SN - 9786613584700 SN - 6613584703 SN - 9780813932729 SN - 0813932726 KW - Companhia de Moçambique : History. KW - Companhia de Moçambique KW - Forced labor : Mozambique : History. KW - Mozambique : History : 1891-1975. KW - Mozambique : Economic conditions : To 1975. KW - Mozambique : Rural conditions. KW - Portugal : Colonies : Africa : Administration. KW - Labor policy : Mozambique : History. KW - Travail forcé : Mozambique : Histoire. KW - Mozambique : Histoire : 1891-1975. KW - Mozambique : Conditions économiques : Jusqu'à 1975. KW - Portugal : Colonies : Administration. KW - Travail : Politique gouvernementale : Mozambique : Histoire. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Human Resources & Personnel Management. KW - HISTORY : Africa : South : Republic of South Africa. KW - Economic history KW - Forced labor KW - Labor policy KW - Colonies : Administration KW - Portuguese colonies KW - Rural conditions KW - Africa KW - Mozambique KW - To 1975 KW - History ER -