Mobility, Migration, Credit, and Slavery in the Indian Ocean World

Abstract

Review Essay

Thomas F. McDow. 2018. Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean. Athens:
Ohio University Press. 378 pp.

Sandra Rowoldt Shell. 2018. Children of Hope: The Odyssey of Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South
Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 352 pp.