Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight.

Other author Harms, Robert W., 1946-
Other author Freamon, Bernard K., 1947-
Other author Blight, David W.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Descriptionvi, 253 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Slavery--Indian Ocean Region. --History. --19th century.
Slavery--Indian Ocean Region. --History. --20th century.
Slave trade--Indian Ocean Region. --History. --19th century.
Slave trade--Indian Ocean Region. --History. --20th century.
Slavery and Islam--Indian Ocean Region.
Freed persons--Indian Ocean Region. --Social conditions. --19th century.

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.
General note"Published with assistance from the Kingsley Trust Association Publication Fund established by the Scroll and Key Society of Yale College and with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013018793
ISBN9780300163872 (alk. paper)

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