Baluchi Experiences Under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921–1950

Using 381 testimonies of Baluchi slaves recorded between 1921 and 1950, this article aims to locate these individuals within the context of the Indian Ocean world. The detailed information in these testimonies reveals various modes of enslavement, including marriage. This article claims that Baluchi slaves shared a common destiny with other groups of people and were far from being the marginal phenomenon that they are often assumed to have been.