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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808832003321

Titolo

Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world / / edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Rediker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

9786612360350

1-282-36035-3

0-520-94098-9

1-4356-0192-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

California World History Library ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristopherEmma <1971->

PybusCassandra

RedikerMarcus

Disciplina

306.362096

Soggetti

Slave trade - Africa - History

Enslaved persons

Slavery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction / Rediker, Marcus / Pybus, Cassandra / Christopher, Emma -- One. The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean / Alpers, Edward A. -- Two. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858-1866 / McCalman, Iain -- Three. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone / Warren, James -- Four. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and VOC Voyages to the Cape / Penn, Nigel -- Five Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin's Voyage to Australia / Pybus, Cassandra -- Six. "The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]": Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists / Christopher, Emma -- Seven. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790-1860 / Anderson, Clare -- Eight. After Slavery Forced: Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor / Nelson, Scott Reynolds -- Nine. La Trata Amarilla: The



"Yellow Trade" and the Middle Passage, 1847-1884 / Hu-DeHart, Evelyn -- Ten. "A Most Irregular Traffic": The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade / Brown, Laurence -- Eleven. La Traite des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea / Martínez, Julia -- Afterword: "All of It Is Now" / Bales, Kevin / Trodd, Zoe -- Postscript: The Gun-Slave Cycle / Rediker, Marcus -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.