Week 12- Indian Ocean Trade Vs Transatlantic Trade

Islamic Law

gave social mobility to enslaved Africans

Concubines

children of ___ were born into freedom

More of what in the Indian ocean slave trade

Women

More of what in the transatlantic slave trade

Men

Syncretism

• presence of mosques

• Islamic Law

• Cowrie Shells

• Non-orthodox practices

Demand

Gold and Ivory

Ongoing Demand

Spices

traded across TRANSATLANTIC network

Salts

Portuguese

Aim to target the entire Indian Ocean Religion

Early 1600s

French took over

Second Caribbean

• Maurice

• Seychelles

Maurice

Populated by dodo birds

First two settlers: African maroons

Seychelles

Sugar and coffee plantations

Indentured workers from Asia

Non-racialized

Social and Political marginalization

Oman Capital

Zanzibar

Oman

abolished slavery in 1970s

Oman

all citizens have equal access to education, second class citizenship

Southern Iran

Africans served in military capacities

Southern Iran

abolished slavery in 1929

Southern Iran resistance to slavery arose

early 20th century

Southern Iran enslaved African number increase

19th century

Iraq

African descent represents 5% of population

Pakistan

largest number of African descent in south Asia

Pakistan

Collaborated with Swahili coast to transport Africans to the makani coast

India

• large number of soldiers of African descent

• Traces of Swahili language

• Descendants of Maroon Community

• Education status

Siddi

Afro-Indian