Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean

by Deryck Scarr

Overview

The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Bourbon and their satellite colony of Seychelles, collectively known as the Mascareignes, were all plantation colonies, as well as significant naval bases from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Scarr uses Mauritian, British and French archival sources to examine both the situation of slaves, as painted by court records in particular, and the psychology of both slave traders and slave owners..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349267019
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 1998
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Deryck Scarr is Senior Fellow at the Australian National University's Institute of Advanced Studies.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Draws on Mascareignean, British, and French court records and other archival sources to illuminate the situation of slaves and the psychology of slave-traders and slave-owners in the Mascareignes (Mauritius, Bourbon, and their satellite colony of Seychelles). Bourbon is also called Reunion. From 1700 to 1830 the islands were both plantation colonies and important naval bases. The slaves came mostly from the east African interior, unlike the west Africans who were taken to the Americas, by Arab, Portuguese, Indian, and French slavers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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