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Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900

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Ewald, JJ
Published in: Slavery and Abolition
September 1, 2010

This essay argues that African freedmen who laboured in ships' stokeholes played vital roles during the first decades of the development of British steam enterprise in the Indian Ocean. These freedmen represented one aspect of the simultaneous globalization and ethnic/occupational segmentation of British maritime labour as a whole. The essay opens with an analysis of the problems that faced entrepreneurs of maritime industrial transport both in general and in the Indian Ocean, leading them to seek a cheap and tractable labour force. It then shows how bondsmen became freedmen, and how freedmen became seafarers who worked on special labour contracts and almost always below deck in ocean liners. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

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Slavery and Abolition

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1743-9523

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0144-039X

Publication Date

September 1, 2010

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31

Issue

3

Start / End Page

451 / 466

Related Subject Headings

  • 4303 Historical studies
  • 2103 Historical Studies
 

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Ewald, J. J. (2010). Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900. Slavery and Abolition, 31(3), 451–466. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2010.504531
Ewald, J. J. “Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900.” Slavery and Abolition 31, no. 3 (September 1, 2010): 451–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2010.504531.
Ewald JJ. Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900. Slavery and Abolition. 2010 Sep 1;31(3):451–66.
Ewald, J. J. “Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900.” Slavery and Abolition, vol. 31, no. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 451–66. Scopus, doi:10.1080/0144039X.2010.504531.
Ewald JJ. Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900. Slavery and Abolition. 2010 Sep 1;31(3):451–466.

Published In

Slavery and Abolition

DOI

EISSN

1743-9523

ISSN

0144-039X

Publication Date

September 1, 2010

Volume

31

Issue

3

Start / End Page

451 / 466

Related Subject Headings

  • 4303 Historical studies
  • 2103 Historical Studies