ABSTRACT
First Published in 1989. Well over a million slaves were exported from Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports in Eastern Africa during the nineteenth century, and millions more were shifted around the interior of the continent and along the coast of East Africa. And yet we still know remarkably little about this great movement of people, particularly from an economic point of view. This is a collection of twelve essays looking at the economics of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea Slave trades of the nineteenth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|20 pages
The Economics of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Slave Trades in the 19th Century
An Overview
chapter 2|24 pages
The 19th Century Islamic Slave Trade from East Africa (Swahili and Red Sea Coasts)
A Tentative Census
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chapter 4|11 pages
Slaves and Slave Traders in the Persian Gulf, 18th and 19th Centuries
An Assessment