Negotiating abolition : the antislavery project in the British Strait settlements, 1786-1843 /
"Shawna Herzog explores the ways sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture, or 'free,' labor created a ne...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Shawna Herzog explores the ways sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture, or 'free,' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Strait Settlements of Southeast Asia. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire"-- |
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| Item Description: | Introduction1. The 'Gradual Abolition' of Slavery in Britain's East Indies2. Cataloguing, Categorizing, and Classifying Labor and Servitude in the Straits Settlements3. Tolerance vs. Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in Malacca4. Too Many Men and Not Enough Women: The Illicit Slave Trade to Singapore and PenangConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781350073227 1350073229 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350073234 |