Being a Slave

Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-30
Mått:170 x 250 x 40 mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:332
Förlag:Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN:9788119139248

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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.