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Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Deryck Scarr
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Description for Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean
hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
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..
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312212117
SKU
V9780312212117
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Ref
99-15
About Deryck Scarr
DERYCK SCARR is Senior Fellow in the Australian National University's Institute of Advanced Studies. He took his PhD there in 1964 and is the author of definitive books and seminal articles on subjects connected with race, labour relations, trade and the colonial experience in the tropics. He is a founding board member and has been longtime editor and review editor ... Read more
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