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Latitudes of Indenture: Portuguese Islanders in Post-Abolition Guiana Plantations and in Hawai‘i
| Resumo: | In this article, one can bring together two different societies in which Madeiran islanders became a distinct local group after migrating there as contract labourers: British Guyana and Hawai‘i. Both societies rested on a labour-devouring sugar economy that, at different moments, made use of contingents of Portuguese islanders from Madeira and, to a lesser degree, from the Azores. In the Guyanas, the Portuguese were recruited from the mid-1830s, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and before the large-scale arrival of indentured South Asian labourers. In Hawai‘i, the Portuguese were contracted from the late 1870s, under the sponsorship of the Hawaiian Board of Emigration and with the support of the Planters Association, in a context in which political debates were raging about which groups should provide both the labour force for the new plantation economy and a replacement population to counter the effects of the collapse of the indigenous population |
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| Autores principais: | Bastos, Cristiana |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In this article, one can bring together two different societies in which Madeiran islanders became a distinct local group after migrating there as contract labourers: British Guyana and Hawai‘i. Both societies rested on a labour-devouring sugar economy that, at different moments, made use of contingents of Portuguese islanders from Madeira and, to a lesser degree, from the Azores. In the Guyanas, the Portuguese were recruited from the mid-1830s, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and before the large-scale arrival of indentured South Asian labourers. In Hawai‘i, the Portuguese were contracted from the late 1870s, under the sponsorship of the Hawaiian Board of Emigration and with the support of the Planters Association, in a context in which political debates were raging about which groups should provide both the labour force for the new plantation economy and a replacement population to counter the effects of the collapse of the indigenous population |
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