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Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 / Andrea Major.

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Explores the political, economic, and ideological agendas that at the height of the British abolition and missionary movements allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Major, Andrea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Series:Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 6.
Subjects:
Slavery > India > History > 18th century.
Slavery > India > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Slavery and the church > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Slavery and the church > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
India > Social conditions.
India > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Other slaveries. Introduction ; 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery
  • European slaveries. Introduction : slavery and colonial expansion in India ; 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company ; Bengalis, caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society
  • Indian slaveries. Introduction : locating Indian slaveries ; 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce ; 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state ; 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India
  • Imagined slaveries. Introduction : evangelical connections ; 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination ; 'The produce of the east by free men' : Indian sugar and Indian slavery in British abolitionist debates, 1793-1833 ; Conclusion : 'Do justice to India' : abolitionists and Indian slavery, 1839-1843.

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