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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This remarkable collection of case studies extends the field of global migration history. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *
"A great read, drawing its strengths from a global comparative approach and well-researched empirical case studies. It will have a significant impact on research on coerced labourers around the world and their responses to their treatment." * Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction: Flight as Fight
Leo Lucassen and Lex Heerma van Voss
1. Runaways and Deserters in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire: The Examples of São Tomé Island, South Asia, and Southern Portugal
Timothy Coates
2. Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1687
Johan Heinsen
3. Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627–1727
James F. Dator
4. Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth- Century Bengal
Titas Chakraborty
5. “More of a Danger to the Colony Than the Enemy Himself ”: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715–1760)
Yevan Terrien
6. “Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795
Nicole Ulrich
7. Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity, Desertion, and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire, 1650–1800
Matthias van Rossum
8. Voting with Their Feet: Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan
9. “He says that if he is not taught a trade, he will run away”: Recaptured Africans, Desertion, and Mobility in the British Caribbean, 1808–1828
Anita Rupprecht
10. Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans
Mary Niall Mitchell
11. Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1863
Jesse Olsavsky
Selected References
Contributors
Illustration Credits
Index
