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.
- Frontcover
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- Preface: Looking at Indian Ocean Multiple Forms of Slavery
- Introduction: Enslaved in the Indian Ocean, 1700–18501
- Alicia Schrikker and Nira Wickramasinghe
- Part I.
Mobility, Emotions, Identities
- 1. Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Indian Ocean Colonial World
- 2. Small-Scale Slave Trade Between Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope
- 3. Between Markets and Chains
- Alexander Geelen, Bram van den Hout, Merve Tosun and Matthias van Rossum
- 4. Connected Lives
- 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
- 7. Acts of Equality
- 8. Rituals of Rule
- 9. “Hoera, dit skip seil uit oos”
- 10. The Materiality of Indian Ocean Slavery and Emancipation
- 11. The Shadows of (Public) Recognition
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Backcover
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