European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / Richard B. Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Richard Blair, author.

Series:

Indian Ocean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Indian Ocean Region--History.

Slave trade.

Slave traders--Europe--History.

Slave traders.

History.

Europe.

Indian Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

xviii, 378 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Between 1500 and 1850, Europeans shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading extended far beyond the Atlantic and must be understood as a truly global phenomenon, the implications of which have been overlooked until now. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean world led, moreover, to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen's magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic Oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Satisfying the demand for laboring people, 1500-1850

The British East India Company and the trade in stout coffree men, 1621-1804

Satisfying the constant demand of the French, 1670-1810

Carrying away the unfortunate from India and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800

The Mascarenes and the disgraceful traffic in chattel labor, 1811-1835

The dictates of humanity, Indian convicts, and the new system of slavery, 1774-1850.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821421062

0821421069

9780821421079

0821421077

OCLC:

894816317