Slavery, Indentureship, and Women's Labor Kenneth Warren John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom

colonial towns lurk spine-chilling ghosts such as the Headless Horseman of Canton

the electrical grid physically unified parts of the country and simultaneously highlighted critical divisions in Peru's fragmented society and political class

invites vigorous debate and puts generational differences in stark relief

Slavery, Indentureship, and Women's Labor Kenneth Warren John Crowe RansomSlavery, Indentureship, and Women's Labor: Early British Guiana's Jails uncovers the overlooked histories of incarcerated women in colonial British Guiana, revealing how prisons evolved from sites of punishment into tools of labor extraction. Spanning the period from slavery through the end of indentureship, this groundbreaking study explores how the colonial state exploited the labor of imprisoned women both African and immigrant within a broader