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The white Pacific :

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The white Pacific :

[Book]

U.S. imperialism and Black slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War /

Gerald Horne.

Honolulu :

University of Hawai'i Press,

©2007.

1 online resource (v, 253 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-237) and index.

Toward a "white pacific" -- Blackbirding -- "Bully" -- Fiji -- The KKK in the Pacific -- Hawaiian supremacy? -- Hawaii conquered -- A Black Pacific? -- Toward a "white" Australia -- Toward Pearl Harbor--and beyond.

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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 Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.

JSTOR

22573/ctt65rm6z

White Pacific.

0824831217

Forced labor-- Oceania-- History.

Imperialism.

Slavery-- Oceania-- History.

Außenpolitik

Diplomatic relations.

Forced labor.

Imperialism.

Imperialisme.

Imperialismus

Race relations.

Sklavenhandel

Slavernij.

Slavery.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Slavery.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.

Zwangsarbeit

Hawaii, Foreign relations, United States.

Oceania, Race relations.

United States, Foreign relations, Hawaii.

United States, Territories and possessions, History, 19th century.

Australien

Grote-Oceaangebied.

Hawaii

Hawaii.

Oceania.

Ozeanien

United States.

USA.

Verenigde Staten.

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