Slave trade and slavery on the Swahili coast (1500-1750)

Thomas Vernet (1)

1 CEMAf - Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains

This paper offers a reappraisal of the slave trade networks linked to the Swahili Coast before the mid-eighteenth century. It is based on extensive research carried out in Portuguese archives and other material.

Mots clés: Slave trade; slavery; Swahili; Zanzibar; Kilwa; Pate; Lamu; Madagascar; Mozambique; Comoros; Yemen

Mots clés: Traite négrière; esclavage; Comores

Domaines: Histoire

Thomas Vernet. Slave trade and slavery on the Swahili coast (1500-1750). B.A. Mirzai, I.M. Montana et P. Lovejoy. Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, Africa World Press, pp.37-76, 2009. ⟨halshs-00671040⟩