Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves

Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves

America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire

SenGupta, Gunja; Amkpa, Awam

University of California Press

02/2023

378

Dura

Inglês

9780520389137

15 a 20 dias

680

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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. BETWEEN EMPIRES: A NEW WAY OF TALKING ABOUT SLAVERY, EAST AND WEST
1. Empire, Religious Law, and Slavery by "Free Will"
2. Human Rights from Calcutta through London to Boston

PART TWO. ANTISLAVERY EMPIRE VERSUS REPUBLIC OF SLAVEHOLDERS
3. Reverberations: American Overseers, Slavery, and "Free" Cotton Experiments in India
4. The Slave Mistress and the Courtesan: Poverty, Patriarchy, and "Proslavery Maternalism"

PART THREE. HOW MIGRATIONS MADE MEANING: IMPERIAL ABOLITION, SLAVE TRADING, AND SUBALTERN SUBJECTS
5. "Domestic" Slavery and Colonial Belonging
6. Rulers, Rebels, and Refugees in Transnational Transit
7. Subaltern Prisms and Meanings of Freedom

PART FOUR. AMERICANS IN SULTANATES
8. Business, Sovereignty, and Fugitive Slaves
9. A Yankee Slaveholder, "Black Sultan," and European Imperialists in the Indian Ocean, 1870-1906

Epilogue. Crossing Slavery's Interoceanic Boundaries: Reflections

Notes
Index
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