From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor & Agriculture in Zanzibar & Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925

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Author: Frederick Cooper

ISBN-10: 0435074202

ISBN-13: 9780435074203

Category: East African History

Cooper examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor.

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Cooper examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor. Booknews Examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor. Cooper (history, U. of Michigan) describes how the processes of interaction and struggle among British administrators, Muslim slaveowners, and the former slaves themselves shaped the outlines of social and economic development along the Swahili coast throughout the remainder of the 20th century. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

\ BooknewsExamines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor. Cooper (history, U. of Michigan) describes how the processes of interaction and struggle among British administrators, Muslim slaveowners, and the former slaves themselves shaped the outlines of social and economic development along the Swahili coast throughout the remainder of the 20th century. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \