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

Indian Ocean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Indian Ocean Region--History.

Slave trade.

Slave traders--Europe--History.

Slave traders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports 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 was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteent

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8214-4495-6

OCLC:

902665272