In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.
Benjamin Reilly is an associate teaching professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University's Qatar campus. He is the author of Disaster and Human History: Case Studies in Nature, Society and Catastrophe and Tropical Surge: A History of Ambition and Disaster on the Florida Shore.
"A lucid and compelling account of the slave experience in a region
long ignored by historians of slavery…. [It is] a valuable case
study that underscores the need for historians to pay closer
attention to the ways in which environmental factors shaped the
slave experience in various parts of the world." "Reilly's valuable
book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian
Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will
benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also
students and researchers of the history of medicine and
technology." (Canadian Journal of History) "Reilly's valuable book
is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian
Peninsula,
which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not
only specialists in environmental
history but also students and researchers of the history of
medicine and technology." (Canadian Journal of History) "Reilly has
been particularly resourceful in drawing upon diverse disciplines
and datasets. The result is a bold, stimulating study that will
hopefully provoke furth scholarly engagement with this important
topic." (International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences
in the Arabian Peninsula) "Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria
successfully illuminates the history of unfree laborers in a little
studied region and is able to do so persuasively by using limited
source material." (Journal of Social History)
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