Being a Slave

Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-8728-344-5
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Critical, Connected Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schrikker, Alicia

Wickramasinghe, Nira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

Francoise Verges: Foreword

Alicia Schrikker and Nira Wickramasinghe: Introduction: enslaved in the Indian Ocean, 1700–1850

Part I Entwined histories: enslavement, indenture, emancipation

Yvette Christianse: At Sea in the Archive: Slavery, Indenture, and the Indian Ocean.

Marina Carter: Slavery, Ethnicity and Identity in the Eighteenth century Isle de France.

Pamela Scully: Rituals of Rule: Infanticide and the Humanitarian Sentiment.

Paul Bijl: Writing Human Equality: The Figure of the “Friend-Reader” in Wange van Balie’s

Memories of the Courses of Life.

Part II Narrating through the archive: mobility, relations, emotions

Herman Tieken: Small-scale slave trade between Ceylon and the Cape from 1728 to 1737.

Alexander Geelen, Bram van den Hout, Merve Tosun, Mike de Windt, Matthias van Rossum: Between markets and chains. An exploration of enslaved experiences, mobility and control in

eighteenth century Southwest India.

Kate Ekama: Connected lives in Colombo: Kinship, commercial and criminal ties between enslaved and free people in a VOC port city

Lodewijk Wagenaar: Boenga van Johor, ‘My forced journey from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope.

Part III: Memories, representations

Annemarieke van der Wal: Slave Songs at the Cape: Diaspora Memory and Creolization in Colonial South Africa

Sarah Longair: The materiality of Indian Ocean slavery: the challenges of presence and absence

Guno Jones: The Shadows of (Public) Recognition: Transatlantic Slavery and Indian Ocean

Slavery in Dutch Historiography and Public Culture

Robert Ross: Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wickramasinghe, Nira
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).

Schrikker, Alicia
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.

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 a historian and Chair/Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University, where she is also Academic Director of Research at the Leiden University Institute for Area