Slavery by any other name : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique /
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 bu...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2012.
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| Loạt: | Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wrqg4 |
Mục lục:
- Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization"
- From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity"
- The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below
- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages
- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder"
- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor
- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will"
- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition"
- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.