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This book compares the systems of exploitative race relations associated with two racist regimes - slavery in the British colonial Caribbean and forced labour in the Holocaust in Germany and the Nazi-occupied lands in Europe. Although each system was introduced by expansionist European powers, through racist enslavement, transportation, dehumanisation and the destruction of human life, the construction and operation of sugar plantations by African and Creole slave labour for the export of tropical products in the period 1650 to 1838 was different from the mass murder of Jewish and Gypsy civilians with the intention of creating a forced-labour regime and colonial-style ethnic cleansing during the Second World War.
Though differentiated in time and place, the four principal common denominators that make feasible the detailed comparison of British Caribbean slavery and the Holocaust in Europe are racism, colonialism/occupation, slavery/forced labour, and death. Juxtaposition of these two companion studies will reveal comparisons and contrasts previously unexplored in the field of race relations under colonialism and the Holocaust.
The book will be of interest to scholars and students of the social sciences and history, particularly those with an engagement with slavery and forced labour, the sociology of race and racism, and Holocaust studies.
List of contents
Chapter 1: A Question of Comparison: British Caribbean Slavery and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe.- Chapter 2: Establishment of the Colonial Empire: Slave-Sugar Plantations, White Exploitation and Slave Suppression.- Chapter 3: Urban Ambiguity: Slave or Free?.- Chapter 4: Social Structure of Slave Society and the Impact of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slave Emancipation.- Chapter 5: Germany's Persecution of the Jews, Evisceration of Poland and Exploitation of the Ghettos.- Chapter 6 German Ethnic Cleansing, Spatial Planning and Colonizing the USSR (1941-44).- Chapter 7: Jewish and Ethnic Victims of Forced Labour in Germany and the Occupied Territories (1939-45).- Chapter 8: Death Camps in the General Government (1942-43) and High-Technology Labouring-to-Death Camps in Germany (1943-45).- Chapter 9: Slavery in the British Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe: a Comparison.
About the author
Colin Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Oxford University, UK and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College; from 1998 to 2001 he was Head of Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment.
Report
Racist Regimes, Forced Labor and Death is an important work that breaks new ground in the comparative study of the history of slavery and the Holocaust. With a structured approach and in-depth research, Colin Clarke presents a fresh, albeit sometimes intellectually challenging, perspective. This book is highly recommended for those interested in the history of slavery, the Holocaust, and racial dynamics in colonial and totalitarian regimes. (Muhammad Hendi Hidayat Romadhoni, Jecelyn Amanda Dethan and Agnes Levina Sesa, Journal of Human Tra cking, November 13, 2024)
