Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula
This book illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins...
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| description | This book illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-295732025-07-30T14:50:37Z Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula Reilly, Benjamin History Environmental studies lavery and the slave trade history of the Arabian peninsula Arabian peninsula This book illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-29 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:35 2020-04-01T10:34:39Z 2015-10-29 book 1004765 OCN: 926919614 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25334 9780821421826;9780821445402 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29573 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25334/1/1004765.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25334/1/1004765.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25334/1/1004765.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25334/1/1004765.pdf Ohio University Press 79b72935-4d71-4d6b-bcd1-08099da31d02 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780821421826;9780821445402 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books 102810 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books open access |
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