1.
van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
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2.
Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
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3.
Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa Collection
2020.
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4.
Stanziani, Alessandro
Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law Book
2018.
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5.
Kaarsholm, Preben
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 42, iss. 3, pp. 443-461, 2016.
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6.
Stanziani, Alessandro
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries. Book
2014.
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2021
van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, indian ocean, slavery
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2020
Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery
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Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: africa, bonded labour, forced labour, humanitarianism, indian ocean, longue duree
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2018
Stanziani, Alessandro
Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law Book
2018.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, africa, bonded labour, india, indian ocean, slavery
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2016
Kaarsholm, Preben
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 42, iss. 3, pp. 443-461, 2016.
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2014
Stanziani, Alessandro
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries. Book
2014.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, bonded labour, central asia, europe, indian ocean, intendured labour, longue duree, russia, slavery
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