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Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean

Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean

Kale, Madhavi

Hardcover

Series: Critical Histories

Caribbean HistoryAnthropologyBritish History

ISBN10: 0812234677
ISBN13: 9780812234671
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 29 1998
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India.

Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.

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