Chapter 1 Introduction: Slave Traders and the Western Indian Ocean

Chapter 2 The Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean: An Overview

Chapter 3 Resistance of Transporters and Insufficiency of the Indian Navy’s Suppression Prior to 1860

Chapter 4 “They are Raising the Devil with the Trading Dows:” Reconsidering the Royal Navy’s Anti-Slave Trade Campaign from the Slave Trader Perspective

Chapter 5 Chains of Reselling: Reconsidering Slave Dealings Based on Slaves’ Own Voices

Chapter 6 The Transformation of East African Coastal Urban Society with Regard to the Slave Distribution System

Chapter 7 Consulate Politics in the Scramble after Sa‛īd: How Did the British Consulate Secure Superiority over the Sultan of Zanzibar?

Chapter 9 Beyond the Horizon: The Agency of Dhow Traders, L’Acte de Francisation and International Politics in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1860–1900

Chapter 10 General Conclusion: Slave Trade Profiteers