Slave in a Palanquin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slave in a Palanquin write by Nira Wickramasinghe. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Slave in a Palanquin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. 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 the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, 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.
Being a Slave
Being a Slave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being a Slave write by ALICIA. WICKRAMASINGHE SCHRIKKER (NIRA.). This book was released on 2023-08-25. Being a Slave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Life Under the Palms
Life Under the Palms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Under the Palms write by Paul Van Der Velde. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Life Under the Palms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Living under palm trees is not without its consequences . . . J. G. von Goethe, Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754-1809) was a Dutch citizen who spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. On his return to Europe he transformed himself into one of the most popular Dutch writers of the early nineteenth century, for his travel writing in the Romantic mode. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays against the work of Christian missionaries in Asia stirred up great controversy. Haafner worked to spread understanding of the cultures he'd come to know in his journeys, promoting European understanding of Indian literature, myth, and religion, translating the Ramayana into Dutch. With the help of generous excerpts from Haafner's own writings, including material newly translated into English, Paul van der Velde tells an affecting story of a young man who made a world for himself along the Coromandel Coast, in Ceylon and Calcutta, but who returned to Europe to live the last years of his life in Amsterdam, suffering an acute nostalgia for Asia. This will be compelling reading for anyone interested in European response to the cultures of Asia.
Being a Slave
Being a Slave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being a Slave write by Alicia Schrikker. This book was released on 2020. Being a Slave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 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.
Lost People
Lost People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost People write by David Graeber. This book was released on 2007. Lost People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An epic account of the power of memory in Madagascar.
