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. |
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The Examples of São Tomé Island South Asia and Southern Portugal | 22 |
Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies 16721687 | 40 |
Knowledge Networks and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago 16271727 | 58 |
4 Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early EighteenthCentury Bengal | 77 |
Military Labor Desertion and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana ca 17151760 | 96 |
Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope 16521795 | 115 |
7 Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity Desertion and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire 16501800 | 135 |
Recaptured Africans Desertion and Mobility in the British Caribbean 18081828 | 178 |
City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans | 199 |
11 Runaway Slaves Vigilance Committees and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism 18351863 | 216 |
Selected References | 235 |
Contributors | 247 |
Illustration Credits | 251 |
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Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia | 156 |
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