New web dossier: Indian Ocean slave trade

The slave market in Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa. From El Mundo en la Mano, published in 1878.

On the occasion of the exhibition 'Slavery' at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, opened by King Willem-Alexander on 18 May, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on the Indian Ocean slave trade. The dossier consists of selected titles from the ASCL Library Catalogue, extended with sources available through the broader Leiden University Library collection. The dossier is introduced by Rijksmuseum curator Maria Holtrop.

Read the web dossier.