Export Led Growth in Arabia from the Middle Ages to WWI: Trading dates, pearls, and slaves with Africa to India
Bob Allen New York University – Abu Dhabi Three instances of export led growth in Arabia involved the export of a primary product and the import of slaves to provide the labour force to produce it. In the Middle Ages the boom in date production centred in al-Hasa, portentous for the future of Saudi. In […]
Slavery and Slave trading Scholarship in the Indian Ocean: Some Lessons from the Atlantic
David Eltis Emory University Only in the last five years has a significant scholarly effort gotten off the ground to pull together systematic information on the age-old traffic in people in the Indian Ocean World. By contrast, usable databases on slave trafficking in the Atlantic date at least from Philip Curtin’s foundational work, The Atlantic […]
Tracing “la Traite” in the Indian Ocean
Margaret Schotte York University “Sailing with the French”, a SSHRC-funded, traces more than 1200 voyages of the Compagnie des Indes, both the movements of ships to and within the Indian Ocean, and the movements of individuals from port to port. The goal is to uncover previously anonymous individuals and to map their lives. The rich […]