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The east African slave trade and the making of the African diaspora in Arabia -- Slavery, dates, and globalization -- Pearls, slavees, and fashion -- Slavery and African life in Arabia -- Antislavery and empire : paradoxes of liberation in the western Indian Ocean -- Globalization and the end of the east African slave trade

An Ethiopian man named Surūr appeared before the British Consul at Addis Ababa in December 1933 and told a remarkable story. He had just returned to Ethiopia after enduring more than five years of slavery in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf where he had been forced to work as a pearl diver. When he was eleven years old and out tending cattle in the Wallamo region of Ethiopia around 1925, he was seized by kidnappers who took him to Tajura on the Somali coast and shipped him along with fifty other captives to Jedda, where he was sold to a man who took him to Qatar and eventually sold him to a pearl merchant who engaged him as a diver. As Surūr explained to the consul, he tried twice to escape from his master. The first time, he fled to the British Residency Agent, 'Isa bin 'Abdullatīf, in Dubai, who promised to protect him, but then returned him to his master, who severely beat him. Shortly after, he fled to the British agency office in Sharjah, only to find that the Residency Agent was the same 'Isa bin 'Abdullatīf, who again returned him to his master, who this time beat him until he was unconscious. Surūr finally managed to escape by fleeing to a boat bound for Basra. There, he met some Somali men working as stokers on a British steamer who assisted him in getting to Djibouti by way of Muscat. When he arrived in Djibouti he was interrogated by port officers, and his story was passed on to the British consulat Addis Ababa who interviewed him and forwarded his story to the Political Agent at Muscat.

RésuméCet article examine des témoignages d'esclaves affranchis retrouvés dans les archives de l'amirauté britannique, dans celles des consulats ou des cours de justice de l'océan Indien occidental. À la différence des récits mieux connus concernant la traite atlantique, ces documents sont généralement brefs et ne sont pas directement produits par les esclaves africains eux-mêmes. Bien que difficiles à analyser, en raison de multiples strates de transcription, traduction et représentation, ces sources importantes permettent de mettre un visage sur les individus qui furent pris dans la tourmente de la traite en Afrique de l'Est au XIXesiècle. Ces témoignages font entendre la voix des Africains réduits en esclavage et fournissent des informations importantes sur les conditions de la capture, les déplacements des captifs, et certains aspects de la vie en esclavage. Nous montrons que ces sources sont d'une immense valeur en dépit de leurs limites, parce qu'elles nous offrent le meilleur aperçu dont nous disposons sur l'expérience vécue des Africains, hommes, femmes et enfants, qui furent victimes de la traite en Afrique de l'Est.

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