Slavery by any other name African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique / [electronic resource] :
Eric Allina.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- xiii, 255 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps.
- Reconsiderations in southern African history .
- Reconsiderations in southern African history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization" -- From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity" -- The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.
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