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This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.
Slave trade --- Slaves. --- Slavery. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- History. --- History --- Slave trade -- Africa -- History. --- Enslaved persons. --- abolition. --- african slave trade. --- american civil war. --- american south. --- bonded labor. --- bonded soldiers. --- captivity. --- china sea. --- chinese labor. --- convict transportation. --- death. --- east african middle passage. --- forced migration. --- global perspective. --- history of slavery. --- history. --- human cargo. --- indentured servants. --- indian ocean. --- irish labor. --- melanesian labor trade. --- middle passage. --- migration. --- slave traders. --- slavery. --- sulu zone. --- terror. --- torture. --- trafficked women. --- transported convicts. --- voc voyages. --- yellow trade.
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A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland's Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called "coffin ships" they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants' own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every step of the journey-including the treacherous weeks at sea-these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora.Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of an overlooked aspect of the migration process that left an undeniable mark on their new lives overseas. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
Seafaring life. --- Ocean travel --- Irish --- Immigrants --- Passenger ships --- Immigrants --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Ireland --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Ireland --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- History --- American History. --- Assisted Migration. --- Black ‘47. --- Burials. --- Canals. --- Charity. --- Cholera. --- Cleanliness. --- Clothing. --- Communication. --- Community. --- Convict Transportation. --- Convicts. --- Delayed Departures. --- Discipline. --- Disembarkation. --- Embarkation. --- Emigrant Mortality Rates. --- Emigrant Relief. --- Family. --- Funerals. --- Gender. --- Hierarchy. --- Housing. --- Immigration. --- Landlords. --- Liverpool. --- Maritime History. --- Mourning. --- Popular Press. --- Power. --- Railroads. --- Remittances. --- Resistance. --- Sea Stores. --- Seas and Oceans. --- Social Class. --- Solidarity. --- Surgeons. --- Theft and fraud. --- Theft. --- Transnational. --- Transportation. --- Typhus. --- Violence. --- Walking. --- Work. --- Workhouses.
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