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Article: "The world's oldest trade": Dutch slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth century *.
- Article from:
- Journal of World History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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"Compared with the Atlantic trade, none of this Indian Ocean flow of captive labor, legal or illegal, has been well researched, and there are no conclusive quantitative studies of its volume ..."
P. Finkelman and J. C. Miller eds., MacMillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (New York, 1998), p. 851.
"In comparison with the literature on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a number of topics in the slave trade in Asia and Oceania remain under-researched ..."
S. Drescher and S. L. Engerman, eds., A Historical Guide to World Slavery (New York, 1998), p. 364.
"The evidence of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean is scanty and periodic, and could ...