Being a Slave Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
Leiden University Press
2020.
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| Colección: | Critical, Connected Histories
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720237406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- Preface: Looking at Indian Ocean Multiple Forms of Slavery
- Introduction: Enslaved in the Indian Ocean, 1700-1850 1
- Part I Mobility, Emotions, Identities
- 1 Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Indian Ocean Colonial World: A Case Study of "Indian" Slaves on Mauritius
- 2 Small-Scale Slave Trade Between Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope: From 1728 to 17371
- 3 Between Markets and Chains: An Exploration of the Experiences, Mobility and Control of Enslaved Persons in Eighteenth-Century South-West India
- 4 Connected Lives: Experiences of Slavery in VOC Colombo1
- 5 Boenga van Johor : "My forced journey from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope"
- Part II Legacies, Memories, Absences
- 6 At Sea in the Archive: Slavery, Indenture and the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean
- 7 Acts of Equality: Writing Autonomy, Empathy and Community in an Indonesian Slave Narrative
- 8 Rituals of Rule: Infanticide and the Humanitarian Sentiment
- 9 "Hoera, dit skip seil uit oos" The Sea as a Site of Memory in the Folk Songs of the Enslaved Community and their Descendants at the Cape
- 10 The Materiality of Indian Ocean Slavery and Emancipation: The Challenges of Presence and Absence
- 11 The Shadows of (Public) Recognition: Transatlantic Slavery and Indian Ocean Slavery in Dutch Historiography and Public Culture
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
