Colonialism and Migration Indentured Labour Before and After Slavery [Hardcover]

I: Introduction.- 1. Colonialism and Migration: an Overview.- II: European Indentured Migration to the New World.- 2. The Absence of White Contract Labour in Spanish America during the Colonial Period.- 3. Markets for Migrants: English Indentured Servitude and Emigration in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.- 4. The Servant Migration to New Netherland, 16241664.- 5. French Indentured Servants for America, 15001800.- 6. The Migration of German Redemptioners to North America, 17201820.- III: Indentured Migration after Slavery.- 7. The Recruitment of African Indentured Labourers for European Colonies in the Nineteenth Century.- 8. Plantation Society and Indentured Labour: the Jamaican Case, 18341865.- 9. The Meek Hindu: The Recruitment of Indian Labourers for Service Overseas, 18701916.- 10. Engagees and Coolies on R?union Island: Slaverys Masks and Freedoms Constraints.- 11. Colonialism and Indentured Labour Migration in the Western Pacific, 18401915.- IV: A Comparison: Indentured Labour Before and After Slavery.- 12. Servants to Slaves to Servants: Contract Labour and European Expansion.- Notes on the Contributors.