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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 104–111.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Richard B. Allen; Daniel B. Domingues da Silva; Jane Hooper; Matthew S. Hopper Abstract This article describes a major new initiative funded by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities to identify slaving voyages by Arab, Chinese, European, Indian, Southeast Asian...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 5–9.
Published: 01 November 2024
... global dimension of Indian Ocean history. The next article reports on the creation of a public database for slaving voyages in the Indian Ocean and Asia. It was initially presented at the Zanzibar conference by Matthew S. Hopper, though its collective authorship represents the work of the team...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 17–31.
Published: 01 November 2024
... their accounts more than in prior periods. The Protectors of Slaves, it seems, took their jobs seriously and wanted to help the claimants who visited their offices. Thus, when complainants included information not only about their own circumstances but those with whom they shared voyages, the British listened...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 2–25.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was an enlightened, progressive, and pro-European monarch who welcomed embassies from British-ruled Mauritius from 1816, signed a treaty of alliance with Britain in 1820, and within less than a decade banned slave exports, accepted a Resident British political agent at his court, encouraged a London Missionary...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 2–21.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Tamatave . Tamatave : Colon , 1937 . Coppalle André . Voyage à la capitale du roi Radama, 1825–1826 . Tananarive : Association malgache d'archéologie , 1970 . Dubois Laurent . A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 . Chapel Hill...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 88–103.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., Dissertation , 17 ; Pearce, Zanzibar , 303 . 63 Brixius, “From Ethnobotany to Emancipation,” 70–71 ; Brixius, “Hard Nut to Crack,” 595 . For enslaved Indians in the Indian Ocean world, see Allen, European Slave Trading . 64 Ruschenberger, Narrative of a Voyage Round the World , 73...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 112–115.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., was considerable. For example, some of those sent aboard British naval ships were instrumental in defeating a French invasion force in 1829. Again, Rainimanana, commonly called Verkey, who was an olomainty or royal slave, was sent to Britain to learn the secrets of gunpowder manufacture, and upon his return...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 10–16.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., if not romantic, experience of an innocent childhood in Zanzibar must have ended with a shock, as the racialized politics of native African versus Arab landowners with wealth built on African slave labor culminated in the massacre of perhaps five thousand Arabs and the exile of perhaps another one hundred...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2024
... African communities. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the forces of globalizing capitalism were firmly establishing themselves in the Western Indian Ocean, with the slave trade as their handmaiden. Slavers transported thousands of enslaved men, women, and children from the interior...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 85–99.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., island clusters, and coral atolls in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds, gathering up the poetics of dialects, pidgins, creoles, and other errant tongues, it is an “unpacific” voyage that dredges up the author's East Asian, Pacific Rim identity as a divining rod for sensing archipelagic...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 32–49.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of enslavement in the western Indian Ocean, but from the nineteenth century onward they were the main focus of the region's slave trade, therefore rendering this study of slavery as being closely related to the studies of the African diaspora ( fig. 1 ). The Indian and Atlantic Oceans share the feature...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 106–119.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and religious backgrounds arrived at and settled down in Mauritius: French settlers, planters, and merchants; African slaves; Indian indentured laborers; Chinese shopkeepers; British colonial administrators and traders; Brahman and Catholic priests; Gujarati and Arab merchants; South African hoteliers; and so...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 48–57.
Published: 01 May 2024
... links to the history of enslavement, by virtue of its predominantly Afro-descended (as opposed to Indo-descended) population, and of the coastal settlements created by freed slaves eager to move away from the plantations and live independent lives as fishermen. 18 Viewed from this perspective...