Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life Under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique

by Eric Allina

Book Overview

Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter and built a vast forced labor regime camouflaged by the rhetoric of the civilizing mission.

Oral testimonies from more than one hundred Mozambican...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813947278
• ISBN13: 9780813947273
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"