The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth CenturyFirst Published in 1989. Well over a million slaves were exported from Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports in Eastern Africa during the nineteenth century, and millions more were shifted around the interior of the continent and along the coast of East Africa. And yet we still know remarkably little about this great movement of people, particularly from an economic point of view. This is a collection of twelve essays looking at the economics of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea Slave trades of the nineteenth century. |
Contents
| 1 | |
A Tentative Census | 21 |
The Black Slaves of
Turkish Arabia during the 19th Century | 45 |
An Assessment | 60 |
The Nile Valley System and the Red Sea Slave Trade
18201880 | 71 |
Ethiopian Slave Exports at Matamma Massawa and Tajura c
18301885 | 93 |
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Southern Ethiopia in the 19th
Century | 103 |
Localisation and Social Composition of the East African Slave Trade
18581873 | 131 |
The Structures of the Slave Trade in
Central Africa in the 19th Century | 146 |
Madagascar and Mozambique in the Slave Trade
of the Western Indian Ocean 18001861 | 166 |
Covert Slaves and Coveted Coolies in the Early 19th Century
Mascareignes | 194 |
The Last Years of the Slave Trade to
the Cape Colony | 209 |
Notes
on Contributors | 220 |
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