Being a Slave, Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Year
2020
Publisher
Leiden University Press
Type
BOOK
Category
HISTORY
Language
English
ISBN
978-9-08728-344-5
Link
Last Update
30-Aug-2024
Keywords
History ; Asian Studies ; Political Science ; Sociology
Description
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.
