Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia
This book provides a series of pioneering studies, by experts in the field, on resistance to forms of bondage in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean World. It analyses the causes, duration and structure of resistance, from go-slows to flight, and theft to sabotage. It also examines the reaction to resistance by the propertied classes and assesses to what degree, if any, resistance was effective in alleviating the nature of bondage. The case studies, drawn from a wide spectrum of geographical areas and historical eras, underscore the similarities and contrasts across the Africa-Asian regions. Summaries of these and a comparison with the much more publicised Atlantic system make this volume essential reading for scholars and students across a broad spectrum of disciplines and area studies.
This book is a special issue of the Journal Slavery and Abolition.
Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa.
Gwyn Campbell is Professor of History, McGill University, and has published widely on the economic history of the Indian Ocean.
Michael Salman is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over the Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines.
Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia
Edward Alpers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael Salman
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CONTENTS
GWYN CAMPBELL AND EDWARD A. ALPERS
RICHARD B. ALLEN
EDWARD A. ALPERS
MICHAEL SALMAN
BOK-RAE KIM
TIMOTHY WALKER
SUZANNE MIERS
JANET HOSKINS
MICHAEL LAMBEK
Richard B. Allen is the author of Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and numerous articles and book chapters on slavery and slave trading in the southwestern Indian Ocean and the social and economic history of Mauritius. Trained in anthropology as well as history, he has written on issues of social control in the wider colonial plantation world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also taught at the Universities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the Somali National University, Lafoole. In 1994 he served as President of the African Studies Association. He is currently on the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review. Alpers has published widely on the history of East Africa and the Indian Ocean. His major publications include Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa (London: Heinemann/Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975) and co-edited volumes on Walter Rodney: Revolutionary and Scholar (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA, 1982); Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence (Phoenix: Oryx, 2001); History, Memory and Identity (Port Louis: Nelson Mendela Centre for African Culture and University of Mauritius, 2001); and Sidis and Scholars: Essays on African Indians (Noida: Rainbow Publishers/Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2004). His current research focuses on the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.
Gwyn Campbell is Professor of History at McGill University. Born in Madagascar, he has also lived and taught in India, South Africa and France and served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in the first phase of inter-governmental meetings leading to the 1997 formation of an Indian Ocean regional association. His publications include (ed.), Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region Curzon-IIAS Asian Studies Series (London & Leiden: Curzon & the International Institute for Asian Studies, 2003), (ed.), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Frank Cass, 2004), (ed.), Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge, forthcoming), An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 17501895 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press) and Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to 1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is currently undertaking research into the foundations and development of the Indian Ocean world global economy.
Janet Hoskins is Professor of Anthroplogy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History and Exchange (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, winner of the 1996 Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies) and Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples Lives (New York and London: Routledge, 1998), as well as editor of Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996). She has done research in Indonesia from 19792000, and has been working in California and Vietnam since 2002.
Bok-Rae Kim received her doctorate in History from the University of Paris I. She is currently a research professor at the Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She is author of several articles and four books in Korean; Le mouvement Intellectuel Coren appel Sirhak (savoir pratique) en relation avec la philosophie des Lumires published in Florence Lotteries and Darrin M. McMahon (eds.), Les Lumires europennes dans leurs relations avec les autres grandes cultures et religions (Paris: Honor Champion Editeur, 2002); Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery published in G. Campbell (ed.), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Frank Cass, 2004).
Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His work includes Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993); The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002); Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture (edited with Paul Antze, New York: Berghahn, 2003).
Suzanne Miers is Professor Emerita in History at Ohio University. Born to American parents in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Belgian Congo) in 1922, she was educated in Brussels and England. She taught at the University of London 19478, the University of Malaya (Singapore) 19558, the University of Wisconsin 19678 and 196970 and at Ohio University from 1970 until her retirement in 1990. She is the author of
