Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
By: edited by Gwyn Campbell.
Contributors: Campbell, Gwyn, 1952-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Slavery -- Indian Ocean Region -- History; Slavery -- Africa -- History; Slavery -- Asia -- History; Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region -- History; Slave trade -- Africa -- History; Slave trade -- Asia -- History
Description: "Examines the various abolitionist impulses, indigenous and European, in the Indian Ocean world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation"--Preface.