Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

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Gwyn Campbell
Routledge, Jan 11, 2013 - History - 272 pages

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East.

Slavery studies have traditionally concentrated on the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. In comparison, the Indian Ocean World slave trade has been little explored, although it started some 3,500 years before the Atlantic slave trade and persists to the present day. This volume, which follows a collection of essays The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Frank Cass, 2004), examines the various abolitionist impulses, indigenous and European, in the Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation.

The essays show that in applying definitions of slavery derived from the American model, European agents in the region failed to detect or deliberately ignored other forms of slavery, and as a result the abolitionist impulse was only partly successful with the slave trade still continuing today in many parts of the Indian Ocean World.

 

Contents

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Indian Ocean slavery and its demise in the Cape Colony
The Bel Ombre Rebellion Indian convicts in Mauritius 181553
Unfree labour and the significance of abolition in Madagascar c 182597
The abolition of slavery and the aftermath stigma The case of the BantuJareer
The slave trade and its fallout in the Persian Gulf
Slavery and the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Arab states on the Persian
Islam and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean
William Gervase ClarenceSmith
Plantation labour in the Brahmaputra Valley Regional enclaves in a colonial
The emancipation of slaves in the Indian Ocean
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Gwyn Campbell is a History Professor at McGill University. He initiated the series of Avignon conferences on Slavery and Forced Labour and has published widely on slavery, the slave trade and other aspects of forced labour including The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Frank Cass, 2004).

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