Modernizing slavery : investigating the legal dimension
Reviews the laws devised by the imperial government to dismantle the slave labor system in the period 1823-38 in order to locate the moment of articulation between chattel and wage slavery. According to the author, the distinguishing feature of these new laws was that the workers lost the right to l...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
1999-07-01
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| Series: | NWIG |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3494 |