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- Title
"le caractère d'une traite d'esclaves déguisée (the nature of a disguised slave trade)"? Labor recruitment for La Réunion at Portuguese Mozambique, 1887-1889.
- Authors
Alpers, Edward A.
- Abstract
This paper examines the final moments of the French libres engagés system of labor recruitment from Mozambique to La Réunion in the late 1880s. Rather than simply regarding this system as a form of disguised slave trade, it seeks to understand how these workers were actually recruited and the conditions of their employment on the French colonial island. It draws upon both French and Portuguese archival sources to place this brief chapter in the longer context of post-abolition labor recruitment in the southwest Indian Ocean.
- Subjects
LABOR market; SLAVE trade; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 2018, Vol 40, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0041-5715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5070/f7401037782