The Worlds of Unfree Labor : From Indentured Servitude to Slavery (An Expanding World, 16)

Palmer, Colin A. (EDT)

Variorum（1998/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 426 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780860785156
• DDC分類 306.36209

Full Description

The proliferation of literature on the various forms of human exploitation before the 19th century provides the raison d'etre for this seminal collection of essays. The ideological foundations upon which systems of coerced labour were constructed are discussed, and then placed into context by examinations of unfree labour in Europe and the colonies. Attention is also paid to the ways in which the oppressed created their cultural space, and challenged those who held them in servitude.

Contents

The ideological context in Europe and the coloniesAmerican racist thought, James H. Sweet; the origins debate - slavery and racism in 17th-century Virginia, Alden T. Vaughan. Coerced labour in Europe: the causes of slavery or serfdom - a hypothesis, Evsey D. Domar; the old world background to European colonial slavery, Robin Blackburn. Coerced labour in the Americas and Africa: the persistence of Indian slavery and encomienda in the northeast of colonial Mexico, 1577-1723, Jose Cuello. "Our suffering with the Taxco tribute" - involuntary mine labour and indigenous society in central New Spain, Robert S. Haskett. Slave control and slave resistance in colonial Minas Gerais, 1700-1750, Julio Pinto Vallejos; from servants to slaves - the transformations of the Chesapeake labour system, Russell R. Menard; African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the upper Guinea coast in the context of the Atlantic slave-trade, Walter Rodney; slaves and society in western Africa, c.1445-c.1700, J.D. Fage; agricultural slavery in the northern colonies and in classical Athens - some comparisons, Vincent J. Rosivach; conditions of labour, culture and resistance: black women's work and the evolution of plantation society in Virginia, Carole Shammas; from Creole to African - Atlantic creoles and the origins of African-American society in mainland North America, Ira Berlin; Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose - a free black town in Spanish colonial Florida, Jane Landers.