Outsourcing African Labor Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century

• Hoofdauteur: Gunn, Jeffrey (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
• Reeks: Africa in Global History 4
• Onderwerpen: African history; Social & cultural history; Krutown; Freetown; Britsh Empire; Trade
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This title structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nur...