Ben Waber hat Worthy of Freedom von Jonathan Connolly besprochen
A Revelatory Look into the Slow Death of Slavery in the British Empire
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This is a revelatory look at the rise of indentured labor post emancipation in the British empire, with Connolly charting how different colonial governments, peoples, and thinkers conceived of the system and how the system itself changed over time. What becomes apparent is how many powerful actors changed their thinking on the morality of indentured labor and long contracts that essentially forbid quitting when the economic conditions favored leaning on that system, and how by many definitions the end of slavery took far longer to achieve than is commonly assumed. This is important for understanding how labor has evolved globally over the centuries, as well as how local and international legal systems can in effect recreate slavery while masking it as voluntary labor. Highly recommend