The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Campbell, Gwyn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Stanziani, Alessandro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: World history.; Labor-History.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Ethnology.; Imperialism.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Labor History.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Social Anthropology.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system-and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Domestic Outsider: Interpreting Contradictions in the Status of Maidservants in Qing China
• 3. The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China
• 4. Labour Migration to the French Islands of the Western Indian Ocean, 1830-60
• 5. Relationships between Economic and Environmental Factors, and Labour Migration to Réunion, 1820-60
• 6. Trafficking, Slavery, Peonage: Dilemmas and Hesitations of Colonial Administrators in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia
• 7. Disciplining the Hill Tribes into Coolie Labour for Road Construction
• 8. Mediated (Im)mobility: Indian Labour Migration to Ceylon under the Kangany System (c. 1850-1940)
• 9. Anti-indenture as Antislavery: Early Indian Nationalism and the Trope of Slavery
• 10. Changing Masters in the Longue Durée: Slavery and Abolition in Egypt and the Sudan, 1798-1882
• 11. Abolitionism and the African Slave Trade in the Ottoman Empire (1857-1922)
• 12. The Abolition of Slavery and the 'New Labour Contract' in French Equatorial Africa, 1890-1914
• 13. The Persistence of Slavery in the Southern Red Sea Region in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• 14. Sex, Money, and Modern-Day Slavery: Trafficking of Women and Children in China
• 15. Rural Women as Property in Zambia: The AIDS Exit
• 16. Child Labour and its Interaction with Adult Labour in Ivory Coast (1980-2002)
• 17. Trauma and Inter-Communal Relations among a Captive Population: Preliminary Findings from the Malakal PoC, South Sudan
• 18. The Persistence of Debt Bondage in South India: Market and Political Alliances
• 19. Debt Bondage and Vulnerable Work in South Indian Silk Processing
• 20. Indebted to Work: Bondage in Brick Kilns.