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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Main Author: Reilly, Benjamin (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Ohio University Press 20151029
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