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Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (California World History Library)

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This excellent collection of essays more than lives up to its "Product Description." Its scope goes beyond the 3 centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade: it includes essays on slave trade in the South Pacific; forced labor and migration of Chinese, Indian and Irish people, as well as prisoners and sailors; slavery today; and links these histories of forced labor to the unfolding "needs" of global capitalism and the world that has emerged.

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When I am reading "Moby Dick" by H.Merville and "The Capital" by K.Marx,I encounter this book and rejoice. Between these two big books in 19th cencury,it seems to me,this book appears very naturally alongside the course of world history. I am a Japanese translator. And When I encountered American word "abolutionist" a few decades ago, I began to read a American history by David Brion Davis, and learned about American Slavery. I rejoice partly because I find the general name of Japanese over-sea sex-slave of 19th or 20th cencuries,karayuki-san in this book.
Flankly speaking I want to read a English book about yellow peril. If it appeared, I want to translate it into Japanese.