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The Slave Trade's Global Web: The Indian Ocean Connection
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Indian Ocean slave trade, a parallel system to the Atlantic that operated for centuries. They discuss the Swahili Coast, the role of Omani rulers like Said bin Sultan, the expansion of clove plantations in Zanzibar, and the infamous trader Tippu Tip. The conversation examines how the Indian Ocean trade differed from the Atlantic — with more women and children enslaved, and a less rigid racial justification — and how it intersected with the Atlantic system through the export of ivory and the movement of slaves to islands like Réunion and Mauritius…
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