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Richard Allen seeks to do for the Indian Ocean what Philip Curtin did in his census of the Atlantic slave trade forty-five years ago: to produce an estimation of the scale and geography of European slave trading activity beyond the Cape in the three centuries after 1500. - David Richardson, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Richard Allen seeks to do for the Indian Ocean what Philip Curtin did in his census of the Atlantic slave trade forty-five years ago: to produce an estimation of the scale and geography of European slave trading activity beyond the Cape in the three centuries after 1500. - David Richardson, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade This book is essential reading for any serious scholar in the fields of Indian Ocean studies, world history, and comparative studies of slavery and abolition. One can only hope that Allen's clarion call will be heeded and others will follow his lead to fill in the numerous remaining gaps in our knowledge of the Indian Ocean world. -Journal of World History An essential addition to growing literature about how people survived in the midst of extreme oppression and resisted enslavement. ... [This] is a book that deserves to be read by scholars who have focused on issues of forced migration and the slave trade within the Atlantic. -Mariner's Mirror This first volume [of Ohio University Press's Indian Ocean Studies Series] indicates that the new series is poised to quickly establish a leading position in the publication of scholarship in this growing field. ... Thoroughly detailed and annotated throughout, the book exhibits all of the hallmarks of Allen's rigorous scholarship. ...[His] diligent and authoritative work forces us to reconsider the significance of Europe's role in Indian Ocean slave trading, the interconnectivity of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds, and the diversity of the populations affected by the slave trade. -International Journal of African Historical Studies Richard Allen's book represents what may be the first attempt to fully grapple with the scale of and connections between diverse imperial slave trading operations in the Indian Ocean during the peak of the European capture and sale of Africans. ...While various versions of some of the chapters have been published over several years in different venues, here they are complemented with richer data and brought into conversation. European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean may well become the go-to source to comprehend the grand contours of the Indian Ocean trade. -Comparative Studies in Society and History

""Richard Allen seeks to do for the Indian Ocean what Philip Curtin did in his census of the Atlantic slave trade forty-five years ago: to produce an estimation of the scale and geography of European slave trading activity beyond the Cape in the three centuries after 1500."" - David Richardson, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Richard B. Allen is the author of Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius and numerous articles on the social and economic history of Mauritius as well as slavery and indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and colonial plantation worlds.

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