• Slavery by any other clme : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique
    Author: Allina-PisanoEric,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Charlottesville
    Published: University of Virginia Press;
    Year of Publication: 2012
    Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 255 p., [10] p. of plates)ill., maps. :
    Series: Reconsiderations in southern African history
    Subject: Labor policy - History - Mozambique -
    Subject: Forced labor - History - Mozambique -
    Subject: Portugal - Colonies - Africa -
    Subject: Mozambique - Economic conditions - To 1975 -
    Subject: Mozambique - History - 1891-1975 -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813932750/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780813932750electronic bk.
    ISBN: 0813932750electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780813932729hbk.
    ISBN: 0813932726hbk.
    Content Note: Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization" -- From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity" -- The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy
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