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The Indian Ocean in Transatlantic Slavery.pdf - 1 views
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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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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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