The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) - Hardcover

Campbell, Gwyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714654868 ISBN 13: 9780714654867

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

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 draws comparisons between similar developments 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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Synopsis:

This collection examines little-studied forms of slavery in the Indian Ocean World up to the period of European economic and political predominance in the 19th and 20th centuries. These studies advance the field beyond the dominant divisions of the Atlantic slave-world, between "free" and "slave" status and between liberty and servitude dominated by chattel slavery. The Indian Ocean World was characterized by complex and shifting forms of servitude, many of which differed significant from that of the chattel slave and which were affected by human and natural forces including state-building, commercialization and climate change.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0714654868
• ISBN 13: 9780714654867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256