Global History of Runaways

Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh.  Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University.  Matthias van Rossum is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

"This remarkable collection of case studies extends the field of global migration history. Highly recommended."

• List of Illustrations and TablesIntroduction: Flight as FightLeo Lucassen and Lex Heerma van Voss1. Runaways and Deserters in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire: The Examples of São Tomé Island, South Asia, and Southern PortugalTimothy Coates2. Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1687Johan Heinsen3. Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627–1727James F. Dator4. Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth- Century BengalTitas Chakraborty5. “More of a Danger to the Colony Than the Enemy Himself ”: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715–1760)Yevan Terrien6. “Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795Nicole Ulrich7. Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity, Desertion, and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire, 1650–1800Matthias van Rossum8. Voting with Their Feet: Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict AustraliaHamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan9. “He says that if he is not taught a trade, he will run away”: Recaptured Africans, Desertion, and Mobility in the British Caribbean, 1808–1828Anita Rupprecht10. Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New OrleansMary Niall Mitchell11. Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1863Jesse OlsavskySelected ReferencesContributorsIllustration CreditsIndex