Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea

by Enrique and Martino

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110754649
• ISBN13: 9783110754643
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"