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Slave in a Palanquin : Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka /
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka-then Ceylon-when the British conquered the is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I A Dutch Fiscal's Murder: Interrogating the Identity of Slaves, Blacks, and "Kaffirs"
- II From Colombo to Galle: Enslaved Bodies in an Archive of Violence
- III Slave in a Palanquin: Jaffna in the Early Nineteenth Century
- IV The Chilaw "Experiment": Labor for Freedom
- V The Plaint of an Emancipated Slave: A Play in Two Acts
- VI Eclipse of the Slave: Traces, Hauntings
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index