The Wages of Slavery

From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England

Michael Twaddle

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138866065
• eBook ISBN: 9781135235697
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

The transition from chattel slavery to forced labour in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has commanded increasing attention from scholars in recent years. The Wages of Slavery tackles this subject from a protoproletarian perspective, studies new labour regimes in Africa and the Caribbean, and discusses work practices before and after emancipation the nature of the working week, subsistence and surplus for slaves and free person, and labour negotiations and confrontations.

Index

Abdukarimu of Hukuyi 172

Abigail (slave) 19

Abolition Act (1807) 22

Abubakar, Alhaji 173, 177

Act of Emancipation (1833) 33

Africa: and England 220–2; slavery in 2–3, 217–18

de Alcoy, Conde 72

Ali, Malam 177–8

Anglican Church: and customary labour 188–9; and emancipation 186–7; and forced labour 196–7; and kasanvu 191–2, 193–5, 199–202; and slavery 8–9

Angola 152. 153, 154, 158

Appleby, Joyce 218

apprentices: and Colonial Office 120–1; attitude of slaveowners 118–19; demography of 98–9, 111–12, 123–6; diseases of 95–6; education of 96–7; housing of 95–6; in Cuba 6–7; movement of 107, 121–2, 124; regulation of 97–8, 109–10; treatment of 95–6, 118–19, 122–3; wages of 92–5; work of 125–6

Arnett, E.J. 170

Arthur, J.W. 196

Backwell, H.F. 175

Bailundo Rebellion 158

Balcarras, Governor 22

Banks, Andrew 133

Baptist Church 21–2

Barbados 31–2, 214, 215

Barclay, David 48

Bargery, G.P. 170

Barkly, Governor 61

Barnet, Miguel 82

Barry, John 28

Barth, Heinrich 178

Bawa, Malam 172, 177, 179

Beckford, William 28

Bella (slave) 19

Bishops’ Memorandum, The 196–7

Black Baptists 21

Blue Books 134

de Bonjardin, Cernache 157

British History in the Nineteenth Century (Trevelyan) 4, 10

British West Indian Slavery, 1750–1834: The Process of Amelioration (Ward) 30

Brougham, Lord 24–5

Buganda 187

Bush, Barbara 29–30

Cadbury, William 152–3, 154, 157, 159, 160

Caledon, Earl of 134

de Camara, Ruy Mattoso 161

Cameroon 154

Cape Colony: and emancipation 131–2, 134–5, 139–40; and mission stations 143–4; banking system 140; demography of 133; livestock farming 137–9; movement of emancipated slaves 144; movement of Khoisan 142–3; political economy of 132–40; regulation of emancipated slaves 141–3, 144–5; regulation of Khoisan 132, 134; treatment of Khoisan 140–1; wine production 132, 136–8; work of Khoisan 133–4, 137

Cape Verde 152

Caribbean: and emancipation 3–4, 9–102; indentured labour in 213–14, 217; Indians in 67–8; sugar prod...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Visible and Invisible Hands
• From Chattel to Wage Slavery in Jamaica, 1740–1860
• Alternative Husbandry: Slaves and Free Labourers on Livestock Farms in Jamaica in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Chinese Coolie Labour in Cuba in the Nineteenth Century – Free Labour or Neoslavery?
• Between Slavery and Freedom: Apprenticeship in Suriname (Dutch Guiana), 1863–1873
• The Transition from Apprenticeship to Indentured Labour in Mauritius
• Emancipations and the Economy of the Cape Colony
• Struggles over Labour Conditions in the Plantations of São Tomé and Príncipe
• Murgu: The Wages of Slavery in the Western Sudan
• Forced Labour in a Missionary Context: A Study of Kasanvu in Early Twentieth-Century Uganda
• Labour and Coercion in the English Atlantic World from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century
• Notes on Contributors
• Index