Being a Slave - 9789087283445

Being a SlaveHistories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean\nAuthor(s): Alicia Schrikker, Nira Wickramasinghe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Leiden University Press, Netherlands\nImprint: Leiden University Press\nISBN-13: 9789087283445, 978-9087283445\nSynopsis\nThis 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.