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LICENTIOUS AND UNBRIDLED PROCEEDINGS: THE ILLEGAL SLAVE TRADE TO MAURITIUS AND THE SEYCHELLES DURING THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2001

RICHARD B. ALLEN
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Abstract

Census and other demographic data are used to estimate the volume of the illegal slave trade to Mauritius and the Seychelles from Madagascar and the East African coast between 1811 and c. 1827. The structure and dynamics of this illicit traffic, as well as governmental attempts to suppress it, are also discussed. The Mauritian and Seychellois trade is revealed to have played a greater role in shaping Anglo-Merina and Anglo-Omani relations between 1816 and the early 1820s than previously supposed. Domestic economic considerations, together with British pressure on the trade's sources of supply, contributed to its demise.

Keywords

MauritiusSeychellesMadagascarEastern Africaslave tradeeconomic
Type
The Business of the Slave Trade
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 91 - 116
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this paper was presented to the conference on ‘Migration and Countries of the South’ at the Université d'Avignon, 18–20 Mar. 1999. My thanks to Joseph C. Miller for his comments on the original conference paper.