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Fragments of empire : capital, slavery, and Indian indentured labor migration in the British Caribbean / Madhavi Kale.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kale, Madhavi.
- Series:
- Critical histories.
- Critical histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indentured servants--Caribbean Area--History.
- Indentured servants.
- Indentured servants--India--History.
- Labor supply--Caribbean Area--History.
- Labor supply.
- Slave labor--Caribbean Area--History.
- Slave labor.
- India--Emigration and immigration--History.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613211774
- 9781283211772
- 1283211777
- 9780812202427
- 0812202422
- OCLC:
- 759158235
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