Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the Nineteenth CenturyThis book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between slave trafficking and other types of trade. Drawing upon first-person slave accounts, travelogues, and archival sources, it documents the impact of abolition on Zanzibar politics, Indian merchants, East African coastal urban societies, and the entirety of maritime trade in the region. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work uncovers how western Indian Ocean societies experienced the slave trade suppression campaign as a political intervention, with important implications for Indian Ocean history and the history of the slave trade. |
Contents
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An Overview | 19 |
Chapter 3 Resistance of Transporters and Insufficiency of the Indian Navys Suppression Prior to 1860 | 41 |
Reconsidering the Royal Navys AntiSlave Trade Campaign from the Slave Trader Perspective | 59 |
Reconsidering Slave Dealings Based on Slaves Own Voices | 73 |
Chapter 6 The Transformation of East African Coastal Urban Society with Regard to the Slave Distribution System | 97 |
How Did the British Consulate Secure Superiority over the Sultan of Zanzibar? | 114 |
The Rigby Emancipation and the Rise of the Indian Resident Nationality Problem | 141 |
The Agency of Dhow Traders LActe de Francisation and International Politics in the Western Indian Ocean c 18601900 | 166 |
Slave Trade Profiteers | 189 |
Note on Archival Documents | 195 |
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