Outsourcing African Labor Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110680225
• ISBN-13: 978-3110680331
• ISBN-13: 978-3110680416
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461591
• Chủ đề: 1. Britsh Empire; 2. Freetown; 3. Krutown; 4. Trade; 5. African history; 6. Social and cultural history

Tóm tắt

This title structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces.