Read e-book online Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in PDF

By Matthew S. Hopper

In this wide-ranging background of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia within the 19th and early 20th centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected issues of enslavement, globalization, and empire and demanding situations formerly held conventions relating to center jap slavery and British imperialism. while traditional historiography regards the Indian Ocean slave alternate as essentially diverse from its Atlantic counterpart, Hopper’s examine argues that either platforms have been motivated by means of international monetary forces. the writer is going directly to dispute the triumphalist antislavery narrative that attributes the top of the slave alternate among East Africa and the Persian Gulf to the efforts of the British Royal army, arguing in its place that fab Britain allowed the inhuman perform to proceed since it was once important to the Gulf financial system and for that reason very important to British pursuits within the region.

Hopper’s booklet hyperlinks the private tales of enslaved Africans to the impersonal worldwide commodity chains their hard work enabled, demonstrating how the growing to be call for for employees created by means of a world call for for Persian Gulf items forced the enslavement of those humans and their transportation to japanese Arabia. His provocative and deeply researched heritage fills a salient hole within the literature at the African diaspora.

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During this wide-ranging historical past of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia within the 19th and early 20th centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected subject matters of enslavement, globalization, and empire and demanding situations formerly held conventions relating to center japanese slavery and British imperialism.

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