03524nam 2200721 a 450 991078161610332120230304214712.01-283-21177-797866132117740-8122-0242-210.9783/9780812202427(CKB)2550000000050949(OCoLC)759158235(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491987(SSID)ssj0000543737(PQKBManifestationID)11356956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543737(PQKBWorkID)10534202(PQKB)10961488(MdBmJHUP)muse3220(DE-B1597)449101(OCoLC)929156536(DE-B1597)9780812202427(Au-PeEL)EBL3441530(CaPaEBR)ebr10491987(CaONFJC)MIL321177(MiAaPQ)EBC3441530(EXLCZ)99255000000005094919980729d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFragments of empire[electronic resource] capital, slavery, and Indian indentured labor migration in the British Caribbean /Madhavi KalePhiladelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,1998.©19981 online resource (240 pages)Critical historiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-3467-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction. Casting Empire --1. Very Particularly Situated --2. Capitalists in the Neighborhood --3. Just a Minute --4. Where Are These Records ? --5. The "Saints" Come Marching In --6. Projecting Identities --7. Casting Labor in the Imperial Mold --Postscript --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsWhen Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India. Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.Critical histories.Indentured servantsCaribbean AreaHistoryIndentured servantsIndiaHistoryLabor supplyCaribbean AreaHistorySlave laborCaribbean AreaHistoryIndiaEmigration and immigrationHistoryIndentured servantsHistory.Indentured servantsHistory.Labor supplyHistory.Slave laborHistory.306.36/09729Kale Madhavi1563653MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781616103321Fragments of empire3832218UNINA