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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 Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 253 pages) : maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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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 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.
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."--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Slavery -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
Indian Ocean Region.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade.
Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 20th century.
Slavery and Islam -- Indian Ocean Region.
Slavery and Islam.
Freed persons -- Indian Ocean Region -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Freed persons.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Harms, Robert, 1946- editor.
Freamon, Bernard K., 1947- editor.
Blight, David W., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013 9780300163872 (DLC) 2013018793 (OCoLC)845085508
ISBN 9780300166460 (electronic book)
030016646X (electronic book)
1306168309 (electronic book)
9781306168304 (electronic book)