Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38913-7 (ISBN)
Gunja SenGupta is Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is author of From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840–1918. Awam Amkpa is Professor of Drama and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and Dean of Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is author of Theater and Postcolonial Desires.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.02.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 figures, 2 tables, 3 maps |
Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 680 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-38913-1 / 0520389131 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-38913-7 / 9780520389137 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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