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Slave in a Palanquin - Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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Slave in a Palanquin - Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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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.
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