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Outsourcing African Labor : Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century /
By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru's familiar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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München ; Wien :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Africa in Global History ;
4 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Free Wage Labor African Diaspora
- Chapter 1: Surfboats
- Chapter 2: Freetown
- A Catalyst for Diaspora
- Chapter 3: The Expansion of Kru Labor in the Royal Navy
- Chapter 4: Kru Labor in Expeditions and Military Campaigns
- Chapter 5: Kru Labor in the British Caribbean
- Chapter 6: Growth in Diaspora and Decline in the Homeland
- Conclusion: Kru Free Wage Laborers in Global History
- Appendix A: Muster Lists, 1819-20
- Appendix B: Interviews
- Glossary of Kru Language Terms
- Bibliography
- Index