The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War

by Gerald Horne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831470
• ISBN13: 9780824831479
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"