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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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Additional Authors

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

Description

vi, 253 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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 field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery, Islamic law and slavery, and the bureaucracy of slave trading. Robert Harms is the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies at Yale University. Bernard K. Freamon is professor of law at Seton Hall Law School and director of the Law Schools Zanzibar Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking. David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University." - Publisher's description.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

History.

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 (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780300163872 (alk. paper)
• 0300163878 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013018793

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library