Slavery by any other name
Subtitle: African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique
By: Eric Allina
Series: Reconsiderations in southern African history; Reconsiderations in southern African history
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780813932729; 9780813932750
Subjects: Economic conditions; Labor policy; Colonies; Companhia de Moçambique; Administration; Forced labor; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization"; title: From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity"; title: The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below; title: Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages; title: Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder"; title: Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor; title: An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will"; title: Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition"; title: Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.