Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

by Alicia Schrikker (Editor)

Other authorsNira Wickramasinghe (Editor)
PDF, 2020

Publication

Leiden University Press (2020), Edition: New edition, 298 pages

ISBN

978 94 0060 376 9 / 9789400603769

Notes

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46138

CONTENTS
PART I Mobility, Emotions, Identities
1. Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Indian Ocean Colonial World: A Case Study of "Indian" Slaves on Mauritius / Marina Carter
2. Small-Scale Slave Trade Between Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope: From 1728 to 1737 / Herman Tieken
3. Between Markets and Chains: An Exploration of the Experiences, Mobility and Control of Enslaved Persons in Eighteenth-Century South-West India / Matthias van Rossum
4. Connected Lives: Experiences of Slavery in VOC Colombo / Kate Ekama
5. Boenga van Johor: "My forced journey from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope" / Lodewijk J. Wagenaar

PART II Legacies, Memories, Absences
6. At Sea in the Archive: Slavery, Indenture and the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean / Yvette Christianse
7. Acts of Equality: Writing Autonomy, Empathy and Community in an Indonesian Slave Narrative / Paul Bijl
8. Rituals of Rule: Infanticide and the Humanitarian Sentiment
/ Pamela Scully
9. "Hoera, dit skip seil uit 00s": The Sea as a Site of Memory in the Folk Songs of the Enslaved Community and their Descendants at the Cape / Anne Marieke van der Wal
10. The Materiality of Indian Ocean Slavery and Emancipation: The Challenges of Presence and Absence / Sarah Longair
11. The Shadows of (Public) Recognition: Transadantic Slavery and Indian Ocean Slavery in Dutch Historiography and Public Culture / Guno Jones
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