The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

ISBN-13: 9780714683881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str.

Gwyn Campbell

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Slavery: A Question of Definition 2. A Forgotten Corner of the Indian Ocean Gujarati Merchants 3. Portuguese India and the Mozambique Slave-Trade, c.1730-1830 4. The Mascarene Slave-Trade and Labour Migration in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 5. Flight to Freedom: Escape from Slavery among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean World, c.1750-1962 6. Violent Capture of People for Exchange on Karen-Tai Borders in the 1830s 7. Human Capital, Slavery and Low Rates of Economic and Population Growth in Indonesia, 1600-1910 8. Forced Labour Mobilization during the Second World War 9. The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 10. Slavery and Colonial Representations in Indochina from the Second Half of the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries 11. Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries) 12. Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery 13. A Theme in Variations: A Historical Schema of Slaving in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions

O autorze

Gwyn Campbell