Slave in a palanquin : colonial servitude and resistance in Sri Lanka /

"From the very early days of the Western colonial project, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopping point in the Indian Ocean. For four hundred years, Sri Lanka transferred from the Portuguese, to the Dutch, to the British, serving for all of them as a crossroads in transnational trade in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wickramasinghe, Nira (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Temas:
1505-1948
Slavery > Sri Lanka > History.
Enslaved persons > Sri Lanka > History.
Esclaves > Sri Lanka > Histoire.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons.
Sri Lanka > History > 1505-1948.
Sri Lanka > Histoire > 1505-1948.
Sri Lanka.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Dutch Fiscal's Murder: Interrogating the Identity of Slaves, Blacks, and "Kaffirs"
  • 2. From Colombo to Galle: Enslaved Bodies in an Archive of Violence
  • 3. Slave in a Palanquin: Jaffna in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 4. The Chilaw "Experiment": Labor for Freedom
  • 5. The Plaint of an Emancipated Slave: A Play in Two Acts
  • 6. Eclipse of the Slave: Traces, Hauntings
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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