A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth. |
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables vii | 1 |
Class Relations and Convict Strategies | 40 |
Knowledge Networks | 58 |
Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth | 77 |
Traditions of Desertion at the Cape | 115 |
Heritage Project Company South Africa as drawn by Azile Cibi | 128 |
Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity Desertion | 135 |
Bruyn ca 17011711 | 139 |
Absconding and Labor Exploitation | 156 |
City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans | 199 |
Runaway Slaves Vigilance Committees and the Pedagogy | 216 |
Selected References | 235 |
Illustration Credits | 251 |
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