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Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 /
"There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery" (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in Indi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Liverpool studies in international slavery ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery
- 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company
- Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society
- 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce
- 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state
- 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India
- 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination
- 'The produce of the east by free men' : Indian sugar and Indian slavery in British abolitionist debates, 1793-1833
- Conclusion : 'do justice to India' : abolitionists and Indian slavery, 1839-1843.