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Slavery and Manumission: British Policy in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the First Half of the 20th Century

Autor Jerzy Zdanowski
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2012
"I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone." - Manuy bint Khalfan, a female slave who was sold and mortgaged several times, speaking to a British agency in Sharjah on October 24, 1938.
 
Many books have been written about slavery, but what makes this book unique is that it highlights the issue of slavery using the statements and life stories of individual slaves, such as Manuy bint Khalfan. The book is dedicated to her memory, and to the memory of all the other slaves who have had the will to escape. Manumission procedures, applied in the Persian Gulf, required that applicants produced written statements describing the circumstances of their enslavement and their reasons for having run away from their masters. Therefore, British agencies have at their disposal the life stories of almost 1,000 slaves, named and speaking in their own voices. Their statements are published for the first time in this book. The analysis of these statements sheds light on various aspects of social, religious, and political life in the Gulf in this period, and the way in which slaves were treated. The book assists in understanding the history of Persian Gulf societies in the first half of the 20th century - particularly the role of slave labor in the pearl industry, the conformity of social practice with religious norms concerning slavery, the position of the British government in regard to slavery in the Gulf, and the role of the British system of manumission in the eradication of slavery.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780863724381
ISBN-10: 0863724388
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Ithaca Press (GB)

Recenzii

"With its abundant quotations of slave appeals, the book offers the most direct access to recorded slave voices for the period that researchers are likely to uncover. Recommended." - Choice, Vol. 51, No. 06, February 2014
 
"The conclusion that Zdanowski presents will provide the reader with an important body of information about both British policy and domestic politics in the Arabian Peninsula concerning slavery and the slave trade....recommended for library adoption." -- Middle East Media & Book Reviews Online, Vol. 1, Issue 8, December 2013

Notă biografică

Jerzy Zdanowski is a researcher and Professor at the Institute for Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw. A historian and Arabist, he has been involved in Middle Eastern studies since 1978. He has written eleven books in Polish, has authored numerous journal articles on the subject of slavery and manumission.

Descriere

"I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone," Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint Khalfan was a female slave who was sold and mortgaged several times before she finally escaped from her master.