Many Middle Passages

Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

By: Emma Christopher (Editor), Cassandra Pybus (Editor), Marcus Rediker (Editor)

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Paperback | 3 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean	p. 20
The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858-1866	p. 39
The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone	p. 52
The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and Voc Voyages to the Cape	p. 72
Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin's Voyage to Australia	p. 92
"The Slave Trade is Merciful Compared to [This]": Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists	p. 109
Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean, C. 1790-1860	p. 129
After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor	p. 150
La Trata Amarilla: The "Yellow Trade" and the Middle Passage, 1847-1884	p. 166
"A Most Irregular Traffic": The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade	p. 184
La Traite Des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children Across the China Sea	p. 204
Afterword: "All of it is Now"	p. 222
Postscript: Gun-Slave Cycle	p. 235
Appendix	p. 237
Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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