The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and demonstrates that the abolitionist impulse was far more complex in the Indian Ocean World than in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions.
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Indian Ocean Slavery and Its Demise in the Cape Colony; The Bel Ombre Rebellion - Indian Convicts in Mauritius, 1815-53; Unfree Labour and the Significance of Abolition in Madagascar, c.1825-1949; The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath Stigma - The Case of the Bantu/Jareer People on the Benadir Coast of Southern Somalia; The 1848 Abolitionist Farman - A Step Towards Ending the Slave-Trade in Iran; 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 Gulf 1921-63; Abolition by Denial - The South Asian Example; Plantation Labour in the Brahmaputra Valley - Regional Enclaves in a Colonial Context; The Meaning of Slavery - The Genealogy of "an Insult to the American Government and to the Filipino People"; Islam and the Abolition of the Slave-Trade and Slavery in the Indian Ocean; The Emancipation of Slaves in the Indian Ocean.
