Nira Wickramasinghe

Slave in a Palanquin

Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the wake of abolition. Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780231197632
• ISBN-10: 0231197632
• Artikelnr.: 59982779

Autorenporträt

Nira Wickramasinghe

Inhaltsangabe

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