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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The African presence in Arabia: Slavery, the world economy, and the African diaspora in eastern Arabia, 1840--1940 Abstract: This dissertation examines the slave trade from East Africa to the Arabian Gulf and the role of the African diaspora in the Gulf economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this study attempts to present an analytical framework for understanding the growth of the slave trade to the Gulf in the nineteenth century and its continuation into the early twentieth century. The framework presented in the following pages is largely economic, concentrating on the role of African labor in the primary Gulf export industries in the century before oil---dates and pearls---as the region was increasingly incorporated into the global economy. This study does not attempt to resolve the ongoing debate about the extent of the Indian Ocean slave trade in terms of specific numeric estimates. However, it does present a context through which existing estimates may be judged. Neither does this study attempt to draw any sweeping conclusions about the nature of "Islamic slavery." However, it does present evidence which challenges many conventional notions about slavery in the Middle East. |
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