Slavery and Manumission: British policy in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the First Half of the 20th Century

Cover
Contents
List of Maps
Glossary
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Slavery in Arabian Societies at the Turn of the 20th Century
	Slaves in the Hijaz
	Slave Presence on the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf
	The Trade in Slaves
	Bodyguards, Servants and Divers
	Female Slaves
Chapter 2 British Manumission and its Impact on the System of Slavery
	Islamic Manumission
	Three Silent Factors of Domestic Slavery
	British Anti-Slavery Politics in the Hijaz and in the Persian Gulf
	The Manumission Movement in the Persian Gulf in the 1920s and ’30s
	Reliability of the Slaves’ Stories
	Agitation Against the British Manumission
Chapter 3 The Red Sea: The Problem of Abyssinia and Relations with Ibn Saud
	Abyssinia: The Unsolved Problem
	Regulations in the Sudan and the Report of Major Diggle
	The Slavery Convention of 1926
	The Prevention of the Traffic in Slaves in the Red Sea
	The Right to Manumit and Relations with Ibn Saud
Chapter 4 The Persian Gulf: The Problem of Makran and Relations with Persia
	The Arab Rulers and the Recovery of Slaves
	The Difficulties in Makran
	Importation from India
	The Right to Manumit and Relations with Persia
Conclusion Slavery, Manumission and Politics
Appendix The List of Slaves Manumitted at British Agencies in the Persian Gulf between 1909 and 1949
Bibliography
Index