Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : SenGupta, Gunja
Amkpa, Awam (1959-....)
Titre(s) : Sojourners, Sultans, and slaves [Texte imprimé] : America and the Indian Ocean in the age of abolition and empire / Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa
Publication : Oakland : University of California Press, copyright [2023]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-344) and index
"In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North
Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings
of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and "Slaves" mines multinational archives;
profiles transnational human rights campaigns; shows how the discourses of poverty,
kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world;
and reveals the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with Whiggish contractual
notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers
and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines
populate the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal,
domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East," and in the age of empire.
By extending the transnational framework of U.S. slavery and abolition histories beyond
the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections
on the comparative workings of subaltern agency"
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- Amérique -- 19e siècle
Esclavage -- Indien, Océan (région) -- 19e siècle
Traite des esclaves -- Amérique -- 19e siècle
Traite des esclaves -- Indien, Océan (région) -- 19e siècle
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- Amérique -- 19e siècle
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- Indien, Océan (région) -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520389137. - ISBN 0520389131. - ISBN 9780520389151 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473257653
Notice n° :
FRBNF47325765
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Between empires : a new way of talking about slavery, East and West. Empire, religious
law, and slavery by "free will" ; Human rights from Calcutta through London to Boston
; Antislavery empire versus republic of slaveholders. Reverberations : American overseers,
slavery, and "free" cotton experiments in India ; The slave mistress and the courtesan
: poverty, patriarchy, and "proslavery maternalism" ; How migrations made meaning
: imperial abolition, slave trading and subaltern subjects. "Domestic" slavery and
colonial belonging ; Rulers, rebels, and refugees in transnational transit ; Americans
in Sultanates. Business, sovereignty, and fugitive slaves ; A Yankee slaveholder,
"Black Sultan," and European imperialists in the Indian Ocean, 1870-1906 ; Epilogue.
Crossing slavery's interoceanic boundaries : reflections.