Paper Abstracts

Indian Ocean Slavery and the 19th Century World Economy 

• Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, “Servitude and the Changing Face of Demand for Labor in the Indian Ocean World, c.1800-1900”
• Janet Ewald, Duke University, “ ‘No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life’: Slaves and Freedmen in the Ports and on the Sea of the Indian Ocean World, c. 1500-1900”
• Matthew Hopper, Cal Poly-San. Luis Obispo, “ ‘Slaves of One Master’: Globalization and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire”

Abolition and the Law: Islamic and Colonial Law in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds

• William Gervase Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, “Islam and the Abolition of Slavery in the Indian Ocean”
• Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver, “Free Soil in the Indian Ocean: Slave Law on the Eve of Emancipation”
• Bernard K. Freamon, Seton Hall University School of Law, “Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and the Modern Muslim Mind”
• Moderator: David Blight, Yale University

Economic and Social Mobility of Slaves in the Indian Ocean

• Abdul Sheriff, Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute, “Social Mobility in Indian Ocean Slavery: The Career of Sultan b Aman”
• Thomas McDow, George Mason University, “Deeds of Slaves: Business and Debt among Khadim in Zanzibar”
• Mandana E. Limbert, Queens College, New York, “Genealogy, Status, and the Politics of Marriage in Oman”
• Moderator: Robert Harms, Yale University

Slavery in the Indian Ocean: Abolition or Transformation?

• Mohamed Y. Mattar, Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies “Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Islamic Law”
• Richard B. Allen, Framingham State College, “Abolitionism and ‘New Systems of Slavery’ in the Indian Ocean during the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
• Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University, “Ocean of Letters: Abolition and Literacy in an Indian Ocean Diaspora”