Being a Slave

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. Her most recent publication is Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).

• 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