The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century

First Published in 1989. Well over a million slaves were exported from Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports in Eastern Africa during the nineteenth century, and millions more were shifted around the interior of the continent and along the coast of East Africa. And yet we still know remarkably little about this great movement of people, particularly from an economic point of view. This is a collection of twelve essays looking at the economics of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea Slave trades of the nineteenth century.

Chapter 1 The Economics of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Slave Trades in the 19th Century, William Gervase Clarence-Smith; Chapter 2 The 19th Century Islamic Slave Trade from East Africa (Swahili and Red Sea Coasts), Ralph A. Austen; Chapter 3 The Black Slaves of Turkish Arabia during the 19th Century, Albertine Jwaideh, J.W. Cox; Chapter 4 Slaves and Slave Traders in the Persian Gulf, 18th and 19th Centuries, Thomas M. Ricks; Chapter 5 The Nile Valley System and the Red Sea Slave Trade 1820'“1880, Janet J. Ewald; Chapter 6, Abdussamad H. Ahmad; Chapter 7 Slavery and the Slave Trade in Southern Ethiopia in the 19th Century, Timothy Fernyhough; Chapter 8 Localisation and Social Composition of the East African Slave Trade, 1858'“1873, A. Sheriff; Chapter 9 The Structures of the Slave Trade in Central Africa in the 19th Century, François Renault; Chapter 10 Madagascar and Mozambique in the Slave Trade of the Western Indian Ocean 1800'“1861, Gwyn Campbell; Chapter 11 Covert Slaves and Coveted Coolies in the Early 19th Century Mascareignes, Marina Carter, Hubert Gerbeau; Chapter 12 The Last Years of the Slave Trade to the Cape Colony, Robert Ross;

William Gervase Clarence-Smith (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)