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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831840603321

Titolo

Being a Slave : : Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean / / Alicia Schrikker, Nira Wickramasinghe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : Leiden University Press, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Collana

Critical, Connected Histories

Soggetti

Slavery - Indian Ocean Region - History - 18th century

Slavery - Indian Ocean Region - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Indian Ocean Region - History - 18th century

Enslaved persons - Indian Ocean Region - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Mobility, emotions, identities -- Part II. Legacies, memories, absences.

Sommario/riassunto

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.