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Title Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia / edited by Gwyn Campbell.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures.
Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Slavery -- Indian Ocean Region -- History.
Slavery.
Indian Ocean Region.
History.
Slavery -- Africa -- History.
Africa.
Slavery -- Asia -- History.
Asia.
Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region -- History.
Slave trade.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History.
Slave trade -- Asia -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Campbell, Gwyn, 1952-
Other Form: Print version: Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 (DLC) 2004029826
ISBN 0203493028 (electronic book)
9780203493021
0203493028
9781135770792 (electronic book)
1135770794 (electronic book)
0714655031 (Cloth)
9780714655031 (hardback)
0714684015
9780714684017