Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa

Tables and Maps ix(2) Preface xi(4) Swahili and Arabic Terms xv(1) Money and Weights xv(2) Abbreviations Used in the Notes xvii Introduction: Plantation Slavery in Comparative Perspective 1(22) Part 1: Plantation Development on the East African Coast 23(130) 1 The Arabs of Oman and the Growth of Trade in East Africa 23(24) Slavery and Islam 23(5) The Society and Economy of Oman 28(6) Slaves in Omani Society 34(4) Trade on the East Coast of Africa, 1800-1860 38(9) 2 Traders and Planters: The Development of Clove Cultivation in Zanzibar, 1810-1872 47(33) The Beginnings of Agricultural Development, 1810-1850 47(13) The Plantation System at Its Height, 1850-1872 60(7) Toward a Plantation Society 67(13) 3 Arab and African Slaveowners on the Mainland Coast 80(34) Malindi: The Growth of a Plantation Town 81(16) Mombasa: Agriculture in a Port City 97(13) Coastal Agriculture: Some Comparisons 110(4) 4 The Slave Supply and the Plantation Economy, 1860-1890 114(39) Continuities in the Slave Trade, 1860-1873 115(7) Restrictions on the Slave Trade, 1873-1890 122(8) Agricultural Production, 1873-1890 130(6) Problems of a Plantation Economy 136(12) Conclusions 148(5) Part 2: The Treatment of Slaves 153(100) 5 Slaves at Work 153(60) Slaves and Cloves 156(14) Grain, Coconuts, and Slave Labor in Malindi and Mombasa 170(12) Old Roles in a Changing Society 182(18) Slave Resistance in a Paternalistic Society 200(11) Conclusions 211(2) 6 Dependence and Freedom 213(40) Acculturation and Dependence 215(13) Independence under Slavery 228(14) Manumission 242(11) Conclusions: Slavery, Class, and Race on the East African Coast 253(16) Appendix 1: Sultans and Consuls 269(1) Appendix 2: Anti-Slave Trade Measures, 1822-1890 270(3) Note on Sources 273(10) Bibliography 283(22) Index 305