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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christopher, Emma, 1971-

Pybus, Cassandra.

Rediker, Marcus.

Series:

California World History Library

California World History Library ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Africa--History.

Slave trade.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612360350

9781282360358

1282360353

9780520940987

0520940989

9781435601925

1435601920

OCLC:

290593779