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

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

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 familiarity w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Gunn, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Africa in Global History , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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