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The European slave trade in the Indian Ocean began when Portugal established Estado da Índia in the early 16th century. From then until the 1830s, c. 200 slaves were exported annually from Mozambique; similar figures have been estimated for slaves brought from Asia to the Philippines during the Iberian Union (1580–1640).
Indian Ocean trade has been a key factor in East–West exchanges throughout history. Long-distance maritime trade by Austronesian trade ships and South Asian and Middle Eastern dhows, made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Southeast Asia to East and Southeast Africa, and the East Mediterranean in the West, in prehistoric and early ...
During the colonial era, Indians were taken into different parts of the world as slaves by various European merchant companies as part of the Indian Ocean slave trade. [11] [14] Slavery was prohibited in the possessions of the East India Company by the Indian Slavery Act, 1843, in French India in 1848, British India in 1861, and Portuguese ...
Pages in category "Indian Ocean slave trade" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Andevo; E.
On the UN day for remembrance of the slave trade, it is worth highlighting the abominable 17th-century Dutch practice of shipping “human cargo” around the Indian Ocean rim. The slave trade is said to be among the oldest trades in the world but that it was practised by the Dutch, during their sojourn at Pulicat in Tamil Nadu, from 1609 to ...
In the 1830s, a period when slave trade flourished, Ghadames was handling 2,500 slaves a year. [60] Even though the slave trade was officially abolished in Tripoli by the Firman of 1857, this law was never enforced, and continued in practice [61] at least until the 1890s. [62]
The line ran from the southernmost point of the sultan's territory in Africa – Cape Delgado in Mozambique – through the Indian Ocean to the city of Diu on the coast of India. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] The transportation of slaves west of the established line, a primarily Muslim zone of the Indian Ocean, [ 7 ] was at this point considered legal but ...
The main examples of Arabic slave trades are : Trans-Saharan slave trade (between the mid-7th century and the 20th century) Indian Ocean slave trade (between the antiquity and the early 20th-century) Comoros slave trade (from an unknown time until the mid 19th-century) Zanzibar slave trade (from an unknown time until the early 20th-century)