This ambitious book is a vital contribution that speaks to scholarship both on the Indian Ocean and global slavery.

Autorentext
Nira Wickramasinghe is Chair Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University. Her books include Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (2014) and Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History (second edition, 2015).

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt
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