258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
This approachable volume uncovers the often-hidden history behind the persistence and resilience of modern slavery in the United States, tracing its evolution from the forced labour on nineteenth-century plantations to today’s hidden global networks of coercion, exploitation and human trafficking.
In the period leading up to our modern era, Americans participated in, and profited from, the... Read more
Introduction 1: Emancipation 2: Re-Enslaving the American Black 3: Native American Slavery 4: Chinese Slavery in America 5: Slave Traders, Slave Smugglers, Black Birding and Shangahiing 6: Involuntary Servitude and Wage Slavery 7: Sex Trafficking 8: Technology and the Future of Slavery in the US
Biography
Kristofer Allerfeldt is an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He has produced six academic books on US themes and delivered public lectures in Europe, the UK and the USA. He has taught on a variety of themes, including anti-immigrant feeling, organized crime, post-emancipation slavery and hate groups in early twentieth-century America.
