Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; 1 Introduction: abolition and its aftermath in the Indian Ocean world; 2 Indian Ocean slavery and its demise in the Cape Colony; 3 The Bel Ombre Rebellion; 4 Unfree labour and the significance of abolition in Madagascar, c. 182 5-97; 5 The abolition of slavery and the aftermath stigma; 6 The 1848 abolitionist farman; 7 The slave trade and its fallout in the Persian Gulf; 8 Slavery and the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Arab states on the Persian Gulf, 1921-63.
Summary
This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and demonstrates that the abolitionist impulse was far more complex in the Indian Ocean World than in the Atlantic system.
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