Re-Visualizing Slavery
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Re-Visualizing Slavery

Visual Sources about Slavery in Asia

Herausgeber: Jouwe, Nancy; Tosun, Merve; Rossum, Matthias van; Manuhutu, Wim
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In Re-visualizing Slavery, historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scientists shed new light on the history of slavery in Asia by centering visual sources--specifically, Dutch paintings, watercolors and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by terms such as 'mild, ' 'debt, ' and 'household, ' but new historical research that utilizes the versatility, power of expression, and silences of and within visual sources explicitly points to it as violent and harsh in character--comparable to the Atlantic hist...