Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean

DERYCK SCARR is Senior Fellow in the Australian National University's Institute of Advanced Studies. He took his PhD there in 1964 and is the author of definitive books and seminal articles on subjects connected with race, labour relations, trade and the colonial experience in the tropics. He is a founding board member and has been longtime editor and review editor of the Journal of Pacific History.

• List of Maps Preface Introduction: Troptard and His Owners Isles of France Pre-1810 Slaves and Slave-Owners 1760-1810 Abolitionist Intrusions 1810-1815 Illicit Slaving and Colonel Keating 1811-1815 Mauritius Slavers, Courts, Free Colour Questions 1811-1818 Slaves Demanded and Supplied 1817-1820 Madagascar Treaty and Military Eruptions 1817-1820 Anatomy of Pre-Abolition Slave Colonies Rebellions in the 1830s Finale Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography Index