Recensão: Éric Allina. Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 2012. 288 pp.

Abstract

In the late-19th-century heyday of European imperialism in Southern Africa, the heavy and coercive hand of the colonial state was needed to procure for its enterprises the African labor that the market’s “invisible hand” could not supply. With this in mind, colonial administrators quickly realized that controlling land was of secondary importance to controlling a sizeable and inexpensive African work force.