Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean

Hideaki Suzuki is Associate Professor of Global History of Exchange at Nagasaki University, Japan, and Research Associate at the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: Slave Traders and the Western Indian Ocean.- 2. The Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean: An Overview.- 3. Resistance of Transporters: or, A Cause for Insufficiency of the Indian Navy's Suppression, prior to 1860.- 4. "They are raising the devil with the trading Dows": Reconsidering the Royal Navy's Anti-Slave Trade Campaign from the Slave Trader Perspective.- 5. Chains of Reselling: Reconsidering Slave Dealings based on Slaves' Own Voices.- 6. The Transformation of the East African Coastal Urban Society in the Slave Distribution System.- 7. Consulate Politics in the Scramble after Sa'id: How Did the British Consulate Secure Superiority to the Sultan of Zanzibar?.- 8. 1860: The Rigby Manumission and the Rise of the Nationality Problem of Indian Residents.- 9. Beyond the Horizon: The Agency of Dhow Traders, L'acte de Francisation and International Politics in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1900.- 10. General Conclusion: Slave Trade Profiteers.r>

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