Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World

1. Introduction: Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World.- 2. Abolition in the Midst of Turmoil: The Case of Tan Emperor Wu Zong (814-846 CE).- 3. Environment and Enslavement in Highland Madagascar, 1500-1750: The Case for the Swahili Slave Export Trade Reassessed.- 4. Volcanoes, Refugees and Raiders: The 1765 Macaturin Eruption and the Rise of the Iranun.- 5. The Environment and Slave Resistance in the Cape Colony.- 6. A Local View on Global Climate and Migration Patterns: The Impact of Cyclones and Drought on the Routier Family and their Slaves in Ile Bourbon (La Réunion), 1770-1820.- 7. The Cyclone, the Meteorologist, the Planter and the Indentured Immigrant. The Strange Story of Selective Cyclone Damage in Reunion Island, 1840s-1870s.- 8. Egypt's Slaving Frontier: Environment, Enslavement, Social Transformations and the Local Use of Slaves in Sudan, 1780-1880.- 9. Environmental Knowledge and Resistance by Slave Transporters in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean.- 10. Environmental Disaster in Eastern Bengal: Colonial Capitalism and Rural Labour Force Formation in the Late Nineteenth Century.- 11. Famine and Slavery in Africa's Red Sea World, 1887-1914.