Harms, Robert W.,

Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight. - New Haven : Yale University Press 2013 - vi, 253 pages : maps ; 24 cm

"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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / Servitude and the changing face of demand for labor in the Indian Ocean world, c. 1800-1900 / On becoming a British lake: piracy, slaving, and British imperialism in the Indian Ocean during the first half of the nineteenth century / Straight, no chaser: slavery, abolition, and modern Islamic thought / Islamic abolitionism in the western Indian Ocean from c. 1800 / "The flag that sets us free": antislavery, Africans, and the Royal Navy in the western Indian Ocean / "If you catch me again at it, put me to death": slave trading, paper trails, and British bureaucracy in the Indian Ocean / Social mobility in Indian Ocean slavery: the strange career of Sultan Bin Aman / Deeds of freed slaves: manumission and economic and social mobility in pre-abolition Zanzibar / Slave trading, abolitionism, and "new systems of slavery" in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world / African bondsmen, freedmen, and the maritime proletariats of the northwestern Indian Ocean world, c. 1500-1900 / Slaves of one master: globalization and the African diaspora in Arabia in the age of empire / Robert Harms -- Gwyn Campbell -- Edward A. Alpers -- Bernard K. Freamon -- William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Lindsay Doulton -- Mandana E. Limbert -- Abdul Sheriff -- Thomas F. Mcdow -- Richard B. Allen -- Janet J. Ewald -- Matthew S. Hopper. Part I. The Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth century -- Part II. Slavery, abolition, and Islamic law -- Part III. Fighting the maritime slave trade -- Part IV. Economic and social mobility of slaves -- Part V. The changing face of slavery --

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Slavery--History--Indian Ocean Region--19th century.
Slavery--History--Indian Ocean Region--20th century.
Slave trade--History--Indian Ocean Region--19th century.
Slave trade--History--Indian Ocean Region--20th century.
Slavery and Islam--Indian Ocean Region.
Freedmen--Social conditions--Indian Ocean Region--19th century.

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