Outsourcing African Labor Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century
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...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2021
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| Series: | Africa in Global History
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