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From Slavery to Indenture: Race and Culture Amongst Indians in French Colonial Plantation Societies, 1750-1888 (2025)
Thesis
Savage, S. From Slavery to Indenture: Race and Culture Amongst Indians in French Colonial Plantation Societies, 1750-1888. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the transition from slavery to indenture in the French plantation islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean. It considers how the lived experience of Indian indentured workers was shape... Read More about From Slavery to Indenture: Race and Culture Amongst Indians in French Colonial Plantation Societies, 1750-1888.

War People: A Cultural History of Violence among the Fante Asafo (2022)
Thesis
Jeffreys, E. War People: A Cultural History of Violence among the Fante Asafo. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the asafo company system, a paramilitary organisation indigenous to the Fante-speaking communities of the Gold Coast, now south-central Ghana. The asafo emerged to protect coastal towns from external threats in a period of politi... Read More about War People: A Cultural History of Violence among the Fante Asafo.