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Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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January 1, 2008
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Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World. Edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Markus Rediker. The California World History Library 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. x, 262; illustrations. $24.95 paper.
Many Middle Passages is a collection of twelve essays about slavery, transportation of British prisoners to Australia, transportation of indentured servants from China to Latin America and the Pacific, coerced labor migration, and modern sex slavery. The geographical range includes the Indian Ocean World (including East Africa), China, Australia, and the Pacific Ocean. The writers are mostly historians, and the essays are ...
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