Histories of Africa and Indian Ocean Worlds: Teaching about Enslavement & Resistance
This resource list was developed in support of the workshop held on November 4th, 2023 with resources recommended by Dr. Richard Allen and Dr. Vijaya Teelock. See their lectures here:
Resources
Books:
- Ali, Omar H., Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2016) - Ali, Omar H., Kenneth X. Robbins, Beheroze Shroff, and Jazmin Graves, eds., African Diaspora
Communities Across South Asia (Greensboro, NC: University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
2020) - Allen, Richard B., European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 (Athens: Ohio
University Press, 2014) - Bhatt, Purnima Mehta, The African Diaspora in India: Assimilation, Change and Cultural Survival
(London: Routledge, 2018) - Campbell, Gwyn, ed., The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Frank
Cass, 2004) - Harms, Robert, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight, eds., Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age
of Abolition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013) - Hunwick, John, and Eve Troutt Powell, eds., The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of
Islam (Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner, 2002) - Jayasuriya, Shihan de Silva, and Jean-Pierre Angenot, eds., Uncovering the History of Africans in
Asia (Leiden: Brill, 2008) - Jayasuriya, Shihan de Silva, and Richard Pankhurst, eds., The African Diaspora in the Indian
Ocean (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003) - Lovejoy, Paul E., Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 3 rd ed. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2012) - Toledano, Ehud, ed., African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean: Identities Between Integration and Conflict (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2012)
- Teelock, Vijaya, Bitter sugar: Sugar and slavery in 19th century Mauritius (Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 1998)
- Teelock, Vijaya, Mauritian history: From its beginnings to modern times (Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 2001)
- Teelock, Vijaya, A select guide to sources on slavery in Mauritius ;: And, Slaves speak out : the testimony of slaves in the era of sugar (African Cultural Centre, 1995)
- Wright, John, The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade (London: Routledge, 2007)
Overviews:
- Allen, Richard B., “Africans in the Indian Ocean World,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African
History (2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013 - Hooper, Jane, “Malagasy Diaspora in Indian Ocean,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian
History (2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.438 - Miran, Jonathan, “Red Sea Slave Trade,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
(2022), https:// doi.org.10.1093/acrefore/978190277734.013.868 - Suzuki, Hideaki, “African Diaspora in Asia,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
(2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.34 - Suzuki, Hideaki, “African Slaves and the Persian Gulf,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African
History (2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.879 - Vernet, Thomas, “East Africa: Slave Migrations,” in Immanuel Ness, ed., The Encyclopedia of
Global Migration (London: Blackwell, 2013), https://doi.10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm188
Infographics:
Table of Numbers of Enslaved People
What happened after 1834 when slavery was abolished in the British Empire?
See our page of resources on Indentured Workers in the Indian Ocean