Slave Trade Profiteers In The Western Indian Ocean: Suppression And Resistance In The Nineteenth Century (palgrave Series In Indian Ocean World Studies)
by Hideaki Suzuki /
2017 / English / PDF
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This 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.
This 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.
