Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harms, Robert, 1946-
• Freamon, Bernard K., 1947-
• Blight, David W.

Description

vi, 253 pages : maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• Slave trade > Indian Ocean Region > History > 19th century
• Slavery and Islam > Indian Ocean Region
• Slavery > Indian Ocean Region > History > 20th century
• Slave trade > Indian Ocean Region > History > 20th century
• Freedmen > Indian Ocean Region > Social conditions > 19th century
• Slavery > Indian Ocean Region > History > 19th century

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."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

Sc E 14-363

ISBN

• 9780300163872 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0300163878 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781306168304 (MyiLibrary) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780300166460 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013018793

OCLC

845085508

Title

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

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harms, Robert, 1946- editor.

Freamon, Bernard K., 1947- editor.

Blight, David W., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-363