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What happened when European colonialism coopted or confronted societies in Asia and the Indian Ocean World for the purpose of slaving, and what are the tools to analyse this? These are questions that guide the present volume. For several hundred years after 1498, seafaring European powers were involved in an increasingly fine-tuned network of commercial relations along the coastlands of the Indian Ocean World and Asia, while Russia steadily expanded into North Asia. A sombre but economically significant part of all this was the trade and employment of enslaved people which flourished until relatively modern times and was partly handled through colonial supervision. This edited volume brings together scholarship about regional histories of colonialism, slavery, and slave trade, including related forms of forced labour and relocation in Asia and the wider Indian Ocean region. The ten chapters feature case studies from the Indian Ocean islands, India, Sri Lanka, Siberia, and Southeast Asia, ranging from the 16th to 19th centuries. The chapters highlight the variety of strategies of slaving that evolved when early colonial and commercial organizations met with local or regional slaving regimes. Additionally, the authors highlight cutting-edge methods of database creation and analysis that are revolutionizing our knowledge of the slaving circuits, indicating that numbers of people transported reached almost the level of the infamous Atlantic slave trade.
Contents
Introduction. Enslaved Worlds: Colonial Encounters and Coercion in Early Modern Asia - Daniel Domingues da Silva, Hans Hägerdal, Angelina Kalashnikova and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva;
Chapter 1. Trafficking of Women in 17th-Century Siberia: A Yakutsk Region Case Study - Angelina Kalashnikova;
Chapter 2. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Use of Non-free Labour, Especially of the So-called Companies Lijfeijgenen (Company Slaves) in Sri Lanka around 1681 - Lodewijk Wagenaar;
Chapter 3. Coolies of Shimla: From British Raj and Pre-colonial Baegar (Indentured) Laws to Modern Slavery -Priya Kapoor;
Chapter 4. Slavery in the Shadow of the Plantations: Colonial and Indigenous Slaving in Early-Modern Maluku - Hans Hägerdal;
Chapter 5 - The Case of the Collector: Michael Hogan's Illicit Slave Trade at the Cape of Good Hope in 1800 - Michael C. Reidy;
Chapter 6. Reconstructing Iberian Involvement in the Commerce in Peoples around Maritime Asia: Between Challenges and Future Possibilities - Filipa Ribeiro da Silva;
Chapter 7. Revisiting Indian Ocean History in the Face of the Digital Turn - Manjusha Kuruppath, Matthias van Rossum, and Mrinalini Luthra;
Chapter 8. Integrating the Indian Ocean and Asian Slave Trades into Global History: Creating Trans-Regional Databases - Daniel Domingues da Silva, Jane Hooper, and Matthew Hopper;
Chapter 9. Identifying and Linking Names, Legal Statuses, and Punishments of The Dutch East India Company Convicts in Early Modern Batavia Using Supervised Named Entity Recognition (NER) - Muhammad Asyrafi and Fathiyarizq Mahendra Putra;
Chapter 10. Scratching the Surface, Shifting the Tides: Initial Findings and Future Directions of the ESTA Slave Trade Database - Pascal Konings, Merve Tosun, and Matthias van Rossum;
Afterword. Reflections on Reconstructing Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Modern and Colonial Asia - Richard B. Allen.
