The constant demand of the French: The mascarene slave trade and the worlds of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic during the eighteenth and Nieteenth centuries
The constant demand of the French: The mascarene slave trade and the worlds of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic during the eighteenth and Nieteenth centuries
Analysis of an inventory of 641 slaving voyages involving Mauritius|and Re´union between 1768 and 1809 reveals that the Mascarene Islands were at the center of a substantial and dynamic regional slave trading network that also reached into the Americas in ways that raise questions about the relationship|between the worlds of the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.
CITATION: Allen, Richard B.. The constant demand of the French: The mascarene slave trade and the worlds of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic during the eighteenth and Nieteenth centuries . : Cambridge University Press , . Journal of African History, Vol. 49, 2008, pp. 43-72 - Available at: https://library.au.int/constant-demand-french-mascarene-slave-trade-and-worlds-indian-ocean-and-atlantic-during-eighteent-9