Slavery by any other name : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique / / Eric Allina.
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| Superior document: | Reconsiderations in southern African history |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 255 p., [10] p. of plates :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization"
- From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity"
- The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below
- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages
- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder"
- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor
- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will"
- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition"
- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.