Being a Slave Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean

Alicia Schrikker is Senior Lecturer in colonial and global history at Leiden University. She works on everyday colonialism in the Indian Ocean throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through a focus on sites and moments of exchange and interaction.Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University. She has published on a range of topics, including identity politics, colonial society and slavery in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean world. Her most recent publication is "Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).