Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia

Daniel Domingues da Silva is an Associate Professor of History at Rice University, U.S. He is the host of the website SlaveVoyages.org and studies slave trade in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.Hans Hägerdal is a Professor in History at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and has written about political, social and cultural processes in early modern East and Southeast Asia.Angelina Kalashnikova is a postdoctoral fellow at Kiel University, Germany. Her research interests include source studies, diplomatics, and the incorporation of Siberia in Muscovy.Filipa Ribeiro da Silva is a Senior Researcher at IISG, the Netherlands, specializing on global labour history, slave trade, slavery, colonialism, and business history.

• Introduction. Enslaved Worlds: Colonial Encounters and Coercion in Early Modern Asia - Daniel Domingues da Silva, Hans Hägerdal, Angelina Kalashnikova and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva;Chapter 1. Trafficking of Women in 17th-Century Siberia: A Yakutsk Region Case Study - Angelina Kalashnikova;Chapter 2. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Use of Non-free Labour, Especially of the So-called Companies Lijfeijgenen (Company Slaves) in Sri Lanka around 1681 - Lodewijk Wagenaar;Chapter 3. Coolies of Shimla: From British Raj and Pre-colonial Baegar (Indentured) Laws to Modern Slavery -Priya Kapoor;Chapter 4. Slavery in the Shadow of the Plantations: Colonial and Indigenous Slaving in Early-Modern Maluku - Hans Hägerdal;Chapter 5 - The Case of the Collector: Michael Hogan's Illicit Slave Trade at the Cape of Good Hope in 1800 - Michael C. Reidy;Chapter 6. Reconstructing Iberian Involvement in the Commerce in Peoples around Maritime Asia: Between Challenges and Future Possibilities - Filipa Ribeiro da Silva;Chapter 7. Revisiting Indian Ocean History in the Face of the Digital Turn - Manjusha Kuruppath, Matthias van Rossum, and Mrinalini Luthra;Chapter 8. Integrating the Indian Ocean and Asian Slave Trades into Global History: Creating Trans-Regional Databases - Daniel Domingues da Silva, Jane Hooper, and Matthew Hopper;Chapter 9. Identifying and Linking Names, Legal Statuses, and Punishments of The Dutch East India Company Convicts in Early Modern Batavia Using Supervised Named Entity Recognition (NER) - Muhammad Asyrafi and Fathiyarizq Mahendra Putra;Chapter 10. Scratching the Surface, Shifting the Tides: Initial Findings and Future Directions of the ESTA Slave Trade Database - Pascal Konings, Merve Tosun, and Matthias van Rossum;Afterword. Reflections on Reconstructing Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Modern and Colonial Asia - Richard B. Allen.