Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World

✍ Scribed by Matthias van Rossum; Alexander Geelen; Bram van den Hout; Merve Tosun

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 329
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and ‘enslavebility’. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of slavery were shaped. Through these cases the reader is able to understand the dynamics of bondage, caste and social control from sources that have remained all but unstudied by historians.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Introduction
Slavery as global history
Urgent history
India, Kerala and the Dutch East India Company
Slavery: global and local
Sources, selection and method
Reflecting on trials of enslavement
1 The abduction of Itti Commera
2 Searching for Kalie
3 The enslavement of Barrido
4 Falsification of a slave ola
5 Disputed status of Malickoema
6 Proof of enslavement
7 Calij’s flight from bondage to conversion
8 Slave or free?
9 Retrieving abducted children
10 The value of ‘freedom’
Glossary
Index

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