Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition /
"While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the fie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.