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revolutionaries as legends in song and literature; and the 1820s witnessed United
States blacks migrating to Haiti, a continuing tradition in the American black
diaspora.
- Joseph E. Inikori, 'Slave Trade and the Atlantic Economies, 1451-1870'; and
'Measuring the A tlantic Slave Trade', Journal of African History, Vol. XVII,
No. 4, p. 495-627.
- Joseph E. Harris, The African Presence in Asia: Consequences of the East African
Slave Trade, Evanston, 111., Northwestern University Press, 1971.
- ibid., p. 69.
- K. M. Panikkar, India and the Indian Ocean, London, 1945, p. 8.
- Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib, Calcutta, 1919, Vol. IV, p. 237-8. Note that
Janjira is regarded as a 'Mighty Power'.
- In recent years Afro-American historians have contributed much to the understanding
of the ethos of black Americans by studying their songs and literature. See : Sterling
Stuckey, 'Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery,' The Mas-
sachusetts Review, IX, 3, 1968; and John Blassingame, The Slave Community
(Oxford University Press, 1972). Perhaps these works could serve as models for
similar studies of Afro-Asian communities.
- Harris, The East African Slave Trade and Abolition in Kenya, Department of History
Howard University, 1974;'Blacks in Asia,' World Encyclopedia of Black Peoples,
Algonac, Michigan, 1975 ; Abolition and Repatriation in Kenya, Nairobi, East African
Literature Bureau, 1977.
- One is the biographical study: W. J. Rampley, Matthew Wellington: Sole Surviving
Link with David Livingstone (London, n.d.); and the other is autobiographical,
James Juma Mbotela, Uhuru wa Watumwa (London, 1934) and translated as The
Freeing of the Slaves in East Africa (London, 1956). Both of these studies had a
limited circulation, mainly in London and East Africa, and are now out of print,
except for the Swahili account. Both studies contain valuable data pertinent to the
East African slave trade and to the repatriation of ex-slaves on the Kenyan coast
during the nineteenth century.
