Sascha Auerbach

The Overseer State

Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916

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Produktbeschreibung

In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entanglement with the development of the modern state. In the wake of abolition, from the Caribbean to southern Africa to Southeast Asia, a fusion of government authority and private industry replaced the iron chains of slavery with equally powerful fetters of law and regulation. This 'overseer-state' helped move, often through deceptive and coercive methods, millions of Indian and Chinese indentured laborers across Britain's imperial possessions. With a perspective that ranges from Parliament to the plantation, the book brings to light the fascinating and terrifying history of the world's first truly global labor system, those who struggled under its heavy yoke, and the bitter legacies left in its wake.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009315791
• ISBN-10: 100931579X
• Artikelnr.: 70470266

Autorenporträt

Sascha Auerbach is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham and a former Fullbright Scholar and Leverhulme Trust Fellow. He is the author of Armed with Sword and Scales (2022) and Race, Law and 'The Chinese Puzzle' in Imperial Britain (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Paper Chains for Iron Chains; 1. 'Not Fit for the Enjoyment of Freedo': Amelioration and the Origins of the Overseer-State
1812-1834; 2. 'To Go and Look for Law': Early Responses to the Overseer-State
1823-1836; 3. 'A Most Imperfect Act of Abolition': Apprenticeship and Early Indenture in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
1834-1842; 4. 'A System Entirely Favourable to the Poorer Class of Natives': Health
Moral Reform
and Coercion in the Indenture System
1840-1864; 5. Man
In His Natural State ... Must Either be Led by Conviction
or by Force': Magistrates
Workers' Agency
and State Violence
1840-1873; 6. 'They Must Know Their Master
and He Must Know Them': Labor Governance and Sovereignty on the Imperial Frontier in Southeast Asia
1867-1890; 7. 'They Have Made the Government Arbitrary Enough': The Decline of the Overseer-State
1870-1904; Conclusion: The Persistent Legacies of the Overseer-State; Bibliography; Index.