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Being a Slave. Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

Year: 2020

Type: book

Abstract: 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.

Source: Leiden University Press eBooks

DOI: 10.24415/9789087283445

Authors: Schrikker, Alicia 1976-, Wickramasinghe, Nira 1964-

Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Leiden University, Northeastern University, Duke University, University of Toronto, New York University, University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Colonialism, slavery, and trade

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W3120793119

FWCI: 5.635

Cites: 41

Cited by: 19

Related to: 10