Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and AsiaThe abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. 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 draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions. |
Contents
A Question of Definition | 1 |
Gujarati Merchants Portuguese India and the Mozambique SlaveTrade c17301830 | 16 |
The Mascarene SlaveTrade and Labour Migration in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 34 |
Escape from Slavery among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean world c17501962 | 52 |
Violent Capture of People for Exchange on KarenTai borders in the 1830s | 70 |
Human Capital Slavery and Low Rates of Economic and Population Growth in Indonesia 16001910 | 83 |
Forced Labour Mobilization in Java during the Second World War | 96 |
The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 110 |
Slavery and Colonial Representations in Indochina from the Second Half of the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century | 128 |
Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries | 142 |
A Korean System of Slavery | 153 |
A Historical Schema1 of Slaving in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions | 166 |
Map | 190 |
Notes on Contributors | 192 |
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