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Informationen zum Autor Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers Klappentext Between 1500 and 1900, the various parts of the Atlantic world became increasingly integrated into an expanding capitalist economy. This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of this world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West. Comparative in perspective, the essays focus on particular regions (Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and Amerindia) and on specific types of labour (slavery, pawnship, impressment, tribute, indentured and contract labour) in ways that transcend traditional areas of specialization. Together they offer new insight into the patterns and intensity of labour servitude in the West and into the relationships between core and peripheral areas of the first capital world economy. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I Frontiers; Colonization and Slavery in Central America; Land-Labour Relations in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Formation of Grazing Haciendas; The Colours of Property: Brown, White and Black Chattels and their Responses on the Caribbean Frontier; Work, Labour and the Market: The Response of Farmers and Semi-Nomadic Peoples to Colonialism in North-West Mexico; Part II Old Worlds, New Worlds; The Criminalization of 'Free' Labour: Master and Servant in Comparative Perspective; Vagrancy, Impressment and the Regulation of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Freedom at Issue: Vagrancy Legislation and the Meaning of Freedom in Britain and the Cape Colony, 1799-1842; Background to Rebellion: The Origins of Muslim Slaves in Bahia; Part III Aftermath of Abolition; The Transition from Slavery to Migrant; Labour in Rural Brazil; Slavery, the International Labour Market and the Emancipation of Slaves in the Nineteenth Century; Slavery and Pawnship in the Yoruba; Economy of the Nineteenth Century; Freedom and Slavery and the Shaping of Victorian Britain...
