Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World (eBook)

Gwyn Campbell is Canada Research Chair and Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada. He is also the editor of the Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, and a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award (2017-2019).

1. Introduction: Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World2. Abolition in the Midst of Turmoil: The Case of Tan Emperor Wu Zong (814-846 CE)3. Environment and Enslavement in Highland Madagascar, 1500-1750: The Case for the Swahili Slave Export Trade Reassessed4. Volcanoes, Refugees and Raiders: The 1765 Macaturin Eruption and the Rise of the Iranun5. The Environment and Slave Resistance in the Cape Colony6. A Local View on Global Climate and Migration Patterns: The Impact of Cyclones and Drought on the Routier Family and their Slaves in Ile Bourbon (La Réunion), 1770-18207. The Cyclone, the Meteorologist, the Planter and the Indentured Immigrant. The Strange Story of Selective Cyclone Damage in Reunion Island, 1840s-1870s8. Egypt’s Slaving Frontier: Environment, Enslavement, Social Transformations and the Local Use of Slaves in Sudan, 1780-18809. Environmental Knowledge and Resistance by Slave Transporters in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean10. Environmental Disaster in Eastern Bengal: Colonial Capitalism and Rural Labour Force Formation in the Late Nineteenth Century11. Famine and Slavery in Africa’s Red Sea World, 1887-1914