[PDF.82vm] The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War

The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War

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 | #3631501 in Books |  Univ of Hawaii Pr |  2007-05-31 |  2007-05-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Compelling Arguments|By Robert H. Command|University of Houston professor Gerald Horne sets forth an intriguing study into the slave trade in the Pacific during the second half of the 19th Century.
While setting down a well-documented history of Pacific "blackbirding," a euphemism for slave trading, Horne also develops an argument that the shortage of cotton and sugar cr|About the Author|Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston.

Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynes...

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