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The Indian Ocean in Transatlantic Slavery.pdf - 1 views

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  • Voyages
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      voyages are long journeys that involves travelling by sea or by in space ( in this content it will be by sea because slaves were transported by through the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Given the lack of source material for slave trading in the ocean, scholars have been forced to focus on the carrying capacity of the trade from specific regions throughout the Indian Ocean. These numbers are based primarily on nineteenth-century British abolitionist observations estimating the overall size of regional trade. 6
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      since there was lack of source material for slave trading in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, scholars were forced to focus on carrying a measured volume of the trade from different places pass the Indian Ocean .
  • Despite the connections between the two trades, one within the Indian Ocean and the other in the Atlantic, we must be constantly aware of the major differences between the two, most notably that both European and non-European slave-owning societies throughout the Indian Ocean region relied upon slaves from Asia, not upon those from Southeast Africa.
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      even though the two trades had connections which was within the Indian Ocean and others in the Atlantic Ocean, there were major differences, particularly the European and non-European slave owners in the Indian Ocean part depended mostly upon slaves from Asia and not those from Southeast Africa.
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  • Second, given the local exchanges operating around the Mozambique Channel and within East Africa, we cannot be entirely sure of the origins of slaves within the region.
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Given the local exchange operating around Mozambique and East of Africa it is not clearly were slave trade started within this regions..
  • venture. The first slaves entering the Atlantic from the Indian Ocean were probably taken to St Helena by English East India Company vessels.
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      the first slaves that entered the Atlantic were taken to St Helena by English East India company vessels .
  • Figure 1. Captives carried off from Southeast Africa for the Americas by decade, 1624–1860. Source: Voyages, http://www.slavevoyages.org(accessed July 24, 2012).
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      below is a graph showing the time profile departure of almost 543 000 people who it was estimated that they had embarked o slave vessels i Southeast Africa for Americans in the years between 1624 and 1860.
  • The French also frequently conflated slaves from the Swahili coast with those from elsewhere in East Africa. 15 This confusion further complicates our understanding of the traffic from the Mascarene Islands to the Americas. Finally, given the relatively little research on the slave
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      France also rapidly mixed-up slaves from the Swahili coast with those from other places in the East of Africa .
  • For centuries, dhows had carried small numbers of slaves from many sources to a variety of markets all around the Indian Ocean. By the nineteenth century, these
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      small numbers of slaves were carried by dhow to different markets around the Indian Ocean.
  • Northeast Africa sent no slaves to the Americas. Madagascar was briefly important in the seventeenth century, as the numbers leaving the island for the Americas amounted to an estimated one-fifth of the relative few slaves traded in the Indian Ocean in that early period
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      nokubonga1219 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Northeast Africa did not send slaves to the Americas
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    This is an image that shows the introduction of Indian Ocean slave
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