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1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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"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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
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Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Slavery -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century.
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Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Slavery and Islam -- Indian Ocean Region.
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Freedmen -- Indian Ocean Region -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Harms, Robert W., 1946-
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Freamon, Bernard K., 1947-
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Blight, David W.
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Print version: Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] vi, 253 pages 9780300163872 (DLC) 2013018793 |
ISBN |
9780300163872 (alk. paper) |
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9780300166460 (electronic bk.) |
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