Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition /

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Other Authors: Harms, Robert W., 1946-, Freamon, Bernard K., 1947-, Blight, David W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / Robert Harms
  • Part I. The Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth century
  • Servitude and the changing face of demand for labor in the Indian Ocean world, c. 1800-1900 / Gwyn Campbell
  • On becoming a British lake: piracy, slaving, and British imperialism in the Indian Ocean during the first half of the nineteenth century / Edward A. Alpers
  • Part II. Slavery, abolition, and Islamic law
  • Straight, no chaser: slavery, abolition, and modern Islamic thought / Bernard K. Freamon
  • Islamic abolitionism in the western Indian Ocean from c. 1800 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith
  • Part III. Fighting the maritime slave trade
  • "The flag that sets us free": antislavery, Africans, and the Royal Navy in the western Indian Ocean / Lindsay Doulton
  • "If you catch me again at it, put me to death": slave trading, paper trails, and British bureaucracy in the Indian Ocean / Mandana E. Limbert
  • Part IV. Economic and social mobility of slaves
  • Social mobility in Indian Ocean slavery: the strange career of Sultan Bin Aman / Abdul Sheriff
  • Deeds of freed slaves: manumission and economic and social mobility in pre-abolition Zanzibar / Thomas F. Mcdow
  • Part V. The changing face of slavery
  • Slave trading, abolitionism, and "new systems of slavery" in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world / Richard B. Allen
  • African bondsmen, freedmen, and the maritime proletariats of the northwestern Indian Ocean world, c. 1500-1900 / Janet J. Ewald
  • Slaves of one master: globalization and the African diaspora in Arabia in the age of empire / Matthew S. Hopper.