Negotiating Abolition - by Shawna Herzog (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> "Shawna Herzog explores the ways sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture, or 'free,' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Strait Settlements of Southeast Asia. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843</i><b></b>explores how sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies in the region, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture or 'free' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Straits Settlements of Southeast Asia. <br/><br/>Through a history of early-19th century slavery and abolition in this often overlooked region in British imperial history, Herzog bridges a historiographical gap between colonial and modern slave systems. She discusses the dynamic intersectionality between perceptions of race, class, gender, and civilization within the Straits and how this informed behavior and policy regarding slavery, abolition, and prostitution within the settlement.<br/><br/>This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Confidently weaving together the themes of empire, labour, gender and the law, Herzog defines and conceptualises slavery and anti-slavery in the British Straits Settlements. This original and innovative work makes an important and timely contribution to the scholarship of slavery's traumatic legacy in the Indian Ocean World.<br/>Catherine Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Loughborough University, UK<br><br>Herzog's masterful study of slavery in the Straits Settlements breaks new ground in our understanding of how colonial officials applied their understandings of 'free' labour (originally developed in the context of slavery in the British Atlantic Empire) and applied it to Southeast Asia. I highly recommend Herzog's book.<br/>Gareth Knapman, Research Fellow in History, Australian National University, Australia<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Shawna Herzog</b> is an Instructor in History at Washington State University, USA. Her primary research and teaching fields are imperialism, gender, modern Britain and the British Empire, and slavery in the Indian Ocean World.
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