Cover -- Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: abolition and its aftermath in the Indian Ocean world -- 2 Indian Ocean slavery and its demise in the Cape Colony -- 3 The Bel Ombre Rebellion: Indian convicts in Mauritius,1815-53 -- 4 Unfree labour and the significance of abolition in Madagascar, c.1825-97 -- 5 The abolition of slavery and the aftermath stigma: The case of the Bantu/Jareer1 people on the Benadir coast of southern Somalia -- 6 The 1848 abolitionist farmān: A step towards ending the slave trade in Iran -- 7 The slave trade and its fallout in the Persian Gulf -- 8 Slavery and the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Arab states on the Persian Gulf, 1921-63 -- 9 Islam and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean -- 10 Abolition by denial: The South Asian example -- 11 Plantation labour in the Brahmaputra Valley: Regional enclaves in a colonial context -- 12 The meaning of slavery: The genealogy of 'an insult to the American Government and to the Filipino people' -- 13 The emancipation of slaves in the Indian Ocean -- Index.

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East. Slavery studies have traditionally concentrated on the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. In comparison, the Indian Ocean World slave trade has been little explored, although it started some 3,500 years before the Atlantic slave trade and persists to the present day. This volume, which follows a collection of essays The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Frank Cass, 2004), examines the various abolitionist impulses, indigenous and European, in the Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation. The essays show that in applying definitions of slavery derived from the American model, European agents in the region failed to detect or deliberately ignored other forms of slavery, and as a result the abolitionist impulse was only partly successful with the slave trade still continuing today in many parts of the Indian Ocean World.

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