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Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia: Bonds of Resistance book cover

1st Edition

Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia Bonds of Resistance

Edited By Edward A. Alpers, Gwyn Campbell, Michael Salman Copyright 2005
156 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides a series of pioneering studies, by experts in the field, on resistance to forms of bondage in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean world. It analyses the causes, duration and structure of resistance, from go-slows to flight, and theft to sabotage. It also examines the reaction to resistance by the propertied classes and assesses to what degree, if any, resistance was effective in... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Gwyn Campbell, Edward A. Alpers; Chapter 2 A Serious and Alarming Daily Evil, Richard B. Allen; Chapter 3 The Idea of Marronage, Edward A. Alpers; Chapter 4 Resisting Slavery in the Philippines, Michael Salman; Chapter 5 Korean Nobi Resistance under the Chosun Dynasty (1392–1910), Bok-Rae Kim; Chapter 6 Abolishing the Slave Trade in Portuguese India, Timothy Walker; Chapter 7 Slave Rebellion and Resistance in the Aden Protectorate in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Suzanne Miers; Chapter 8 Slaves, Brides and Other ‘Gifts’, Janet Hoskins; Chapter 9 Revolted but Not Revolting, Michael Lambek;

Biography

Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at UCLA. He has published Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa, and co-edited Walter Rodney: Revolutionary and Scholar, Africa and the West, and History, Memory and Identity. He is Past President of the African Studies Association.
Gwyn Campbell Maitre de Conferences at the University of Avignon, has published widely on the economic history of the Indian Ocean world including Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to 1900.
Michael Salman is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines.

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