Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between slave trafficking and other types of trade. Drawing upon first-person slave accounts, travelogues, and archival sources, it documents the impact of abolition on Zanzibar politics, Indian merchants, East African coastal urban societies, and the entirety of maritime trade in the region. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work uncovers how western Indian Ocean societies experienced the slave trade suppression campaign as a political intervention, with important implications for Indian Ocean history and the history of the slave trade.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Slave Traders and the Western Indian Ocean (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 1-18 The Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean: An Overview (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 19-40 Resistance of Transporters and Insufficiency of the Indian Navy’s Suppression Prior to 1860 (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 41-57 “They are Raising the Devil with the Trading Dows:” Reconsidering the Royal Navy’s Anti-Slave Trade Campaign from the Slave Trader Perspective (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 59-72 Chains of Reselling: Reconsidering Slave Dealings Based on Slaves’ Own Voices (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 73-96 The Transformation of East African Coastal Urban Society with Regard to the Slave Distribution System (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 97-113 Consulate Politics in the Scramble after Sa‛īd: How Did the British Consulate Secure Superiority over the Sultan of Zanzibar? (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 115-139 1860: The Rigby Emancipation and the Rise of the Indian Resident Nationality Problem (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 141-165 Beyond the Horizon: The Agency of Dhow Traders, L’Acte de Francisation and International Politics in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1860–1900 (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 167-187 General Conclusion: Slave Trade Profiteers (Hideaki Suzuki)....Pages 189-194 Back Matter ....Pages 195-224