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The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in
debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and
inequality. This edited volume explores how Atlantic slaved-based
economic activities and their spin-offs have contributed to the
economic development of Europe. The contributions to this volume
each provide new data and methods for assessing the impact of
Atlantic slavery, the slave trade and slave-related economic
activities on Europe's economic development. It traces this impact
across Europe, from maritime and colonizing regions to landlocked
regions, of which, the ties to the Atlantic slavery complex might
seem less obvious at first glance. Together the studies of this
volume indicate that slavery and colonialism played a pivotal role
in the rise of Europe and globally diverging economic fortunes. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal Slavery & Abolition.
The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted
from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains:
slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel
slavery, and most studies continue to be based - either outright or
implicitly - on a model of northern European wage labour. This book
constitutes an attempt to re-centre that story to Asia. With
studies spanning the western Indian Ocean and the steppes of
Central Asia to the islands of South East Asia and Japan, and
ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, this book
tracks coercion in diverse forms, tracing both similarities and
differences - as well as connections - between systems of coercion,
from early sales regulations to post-abolition labour contracts.
Deep empirical case studies, as well as comparisons between the
chapters, all show that while coercion was entrenched in a number
of societies, it was so in different and shifting ways. This book
thus not only shows the history of slavery and coercion in Asia as
a connected story, but also lays the groundwork for global studies
of a phenomenon as varying, manifold and contested as coercion.
Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a
main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents
ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and
'enslavebility'. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and
testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical
realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of
slavery were shaped. Each original Dutch transcript is followed by
an English translation, shedding light on the interactions between
local systems of bondage and global systems of commodified slavery,
and providing a new perspective on the global history of
slavery.Analysing slavery in the Indian Ocean and South Asia, these
case studies examine the dynamics of bondage, caste and social
control, while offering a counterpoint to the traditional focus on
Atlantic slavery.
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of
all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers,
soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and
bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited
by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum,
compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch,
French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these
essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers
who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the
same time, these laborers challenged that order-from the
undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to
the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850,
workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts,
domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from
their masters and bosses, with profound effects.
A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus
Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and
connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal,
Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how
capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build
the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these
laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish
colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil
war in the United States in the nineteenth. Â
Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a
main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents
ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and
'enslavebility'. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and
testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical
realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of
slavery were shaped. Each original Dutch transcript is followed by
an English translation, shedding light on the interactions between
local systems of bondage and global systems of commodified slavery,
and providing a new perspective on the global history of
slavery.Analysing slavery in the Indian Ocean and South Asia, these
case studies examine the dynamics of bondage, caste and social
control, while offering a counterpoint to the traditional focus on
Atlantic slavery.
Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive
infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were
needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and
factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors,
soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial to globalization but
were also confronted with the process of globalization themselves.
They were often migrants who worked, directly or indirectly, for
trading companies, merchants and producers that tried to discipline
and control their labour force. The contributors to this volume
offer an integrated, thematic study of the global history of
desertion in European, Atlantic and Asian contexts. By tracing and
comparing acts and patterns of desertion across empires, economic
systems, regions and types of workers, Desertion in the Early
Modern World illuminates the crucial role of practices of desertion
among workers in shaping the history of imperial and economic
expansion in the early modern period.
Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive
infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were
needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and
factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors,
soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial to globalization but
were also confronted with the process of globalization themselves.
They were often migrants who worked, directly or indirectly, for
trading companies, merchants and producers that tried to discipline
and control their labour force. The contributors to this volume
offer an integrated, thematic study of the global history of
desertion in European, Atlantic and Asian contexts. By tracing and
comparing acts and patterns of desertion across empires, economic
systems, regions and types of workers, Desertion in the Early
Modern World illuminates the crucial role of practices of desertion
among workers in shaping the history of imperial and economic
expansion in the early modern period.
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