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Autore |
Allen Richard Blair |
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Titolo |
European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / / Richard B. Allen |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (397 p.) |
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Collana |
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Indian Ocean studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slave trade - Indian Ocean Region - History |
Slave traders - Europe - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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