ANo region in the world has had such a long history of trafficking and slavery as East Africa and the Indian Ocean. Very far from the simplifying models of the Atlantic complex, the societies of the Indian Ocean have experienced very diverse forms of slavery and servile situations, where all the European, Eastern and African slave systems mingle. Africans and Malagasy are the majority among the slaves, but they rub shoulders with companions in misfortune of extremely varied geographical origins, and in particular Asians. Slaves were redistributed and sold to the four corners of the Indian Ocean but also to the Atlantic, while the servile logic developed in Africa, which reached their apotheosis in Zanzibar in the 19th century.
This work brilliantly completes a historiography which remains largely dominated by studies on the Atlantic. By means of a global approach, oceanic as continental, it renews in depth the questions of the slave trade and slavery as well as their complex changes from the 15th to the 21st century in the space of East Africa and Europe. 'Indian Ocean. It thus offers the French-speaking public an innovative and powerful approach based on original and in-depth case studies carried out by the best specialists in these questions.