Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labour in the Gulf of Guinea
Martino, "Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labour in the Gulf of Guinea "
English | ISBN: 3110754649 | 2022 | 290 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 3110754649 | 2022 | 290 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa's largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today's Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In
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