Being a Slave : Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean / Alicia Schrikker, Nira Wickramasinghe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

, Leiden University Press, Author.

Contributor:

Schrikker, Alicia, editor.

Wickramasinghe, Nira, editor.

Series:

Critical, Connected Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : Leiden University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Alicia Schrikker is Senior Lecturer in colonial and global history at Leiden University. She works on everyday colonialism in the Indian Ocean throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through a focus on sites and moments of exchange and interaction.Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University. She has published on a range of topics, including identity politics, colonial society and slavery in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean world. Her most recent publication is Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).

Summary:

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, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective that embraces the origin and afterlife of enslavement as well as the imaginaries and representations of slaves rather than the trade in slaves itself.

Contents:

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

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9789400603769

9400603762

OCLC:

1237670882

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.24415/9789087283445

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access