A collection of essays on the different forms of unfree labor that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world between 1500 and 1900, and the debates and protests concerning labor servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West. Contributors use a comparative historical approach and discuss slavery, pawnship, impressment, and indentured labor in regions such as Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and Amerindia. Distributed by I.S.B.S. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.