240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the... Read more
1. Slavery: A Question of Definition 2. A Forgotten Corner of the Indian Ocean Gujarati Merchants 3. Portuguese India and the Mozambique Slave-Trade, c.1730-1830 4. The Mascarene Slave-Trade and Labour Migration in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 5. Flight to Freedom: Escape from Slavery among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean World, c.1750-1962 6. Violent Capture of People for Exchange on Karen-Tai Borders in the 1830s 7. Human Capital, Slavery and Low Rates of Economic and Population Growth in Indonesia, 1600-1910 8. Forced Labour Mobilization during the Second World War 9. The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 10. Slavery and Colonial Representations in Indochina from the Second Half of the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries 11. Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries) 12. Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery 13. A Theme in Variations: A Historical Schema of Slaving in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions
Biography
Gwyn Campbell
