124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Maritime Labor, Diaspora, and Ethnicity in the Age of Sail

Maritime Labor, Diaspora, and Ethnicity in the Age of Sail

AHA Session 119

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Elizabeth Ballroom D (Hyatt)

Chair:

W. Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire

Papers:

The Sailor's Return: Moral Capital and Millenarian Fantasy in the Founding of Sierra Leone
Isaac Land, Indiana State University

The Chinese Maritime Workforce in Late Eighteenth-Century London: Community Building and Cross-Cultural Interventions
Iona D. Man-Cheong, Stony Brook University

Historical Roots of an Indian Working-Class Community in London: Lascar Maritime Laborers to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Michael Fisher, Oberlin College

Comment:

Jeffrey A. Fortin, State University of New York College at Oneonta

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