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

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 familiar...

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