Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour

book: Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850

Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour

Edited by: Kate Ekama , Lisa Hellman and Matthias van Rossum

Volume 3 in the series Dependency and Slavery Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777246

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The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based – either outright or implicitly – on a model of northern European wage labour. This book constitutes an attempt to re-centre that story to Asia.

With studies spanning the western Indian Ocean and the steppes of Central Asia to the islands of South East Asia and Japan, and ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, this book tracks coercion in diverse forms, tracing both similarities and differences – as well as connections – between systems of coercion, from early sales regulations to post-abolition labour contracts.

Deep empirical case studies, as well as comparisons between the chapters, all show that while coercion was entrenched in a number of societies, it was so in different and shifting ways. This book thus not only shows the history of slavery and coercion in Asia as a connected story, but also lays the groundwork for global studies of a phenomenon as varying, manifold and contested as coercion.

Author / Editor information

Kate Ekama, Stellenbosch Univ., ZAF; Lisa Hellman, Lund Univ., SWE; Matthias van Rossum, Internat. Inst. of Soc. Hist. Amsterdam, NLD.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Opening Thoughts
Slavery and Labour Coercion in Asia – Towards a Global History Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman and Matthias van Rossum Open Access Download PDF	1
Reflections on Comparing and Connecting Regimes of Slavery and Coerced Labour Matthias van Rossum Open Access Download PDF	17
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slaving in Early-Modern Asia Claude Chevaleyre Open Access Download PDF	31
Coerced Mobilities
Maritime (Im)mobility: Reconstructing the Supply of Enslaved Labour to Batavia, 1624–1801 Samantha Sint Nicolaas Open Access Download PDF	49
A Slave Economy in the East Indies: Seaborne Transportation of Slaves to the Banda Islands Hans Hägerdal Open Access Download PDF	77
The ‘Coolie Trade’ via Southeast Asia: Exporting Chinese Indentured Labourers to Cuba through the Spanish Philippines Mònica Ginés-Blasi Open Access Download PDF	97
Regimes
Boundaries of Bondage: Slavery and Enslaveability in VOC Ceylon Kate Ekama Open Access Download PDF	119
Government Slavery in Portuguese Melaka, 1511–1523 James Fujitani Open Access Download PDF	141
The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires Lisa Hellman Open Access Download PDF	161
Households, Family Politics, and Slavery in Nepal Sanjog Rupakheti Open Access Download PDF	179
Local Networks of the Slave Trade in Colonial Kerala Vinil Baby Paul Open Access Download PDF	199
Transformations
Suspicion and Repression: Ming China, Tokugawa Japan, and the End of the Japanese-European Slave Trade (1614–1635) Rômulo da Silva Ehalt Open Access Download PDF	213
Famine Labour and Coercion in Relief-based Public Works Construction in Colonial India in the Late Nineteenth Century Amal Shahid Open Access Download PDF	231
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	251
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	273
Index Open Access Download PDF	275

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historians, scholars of slavery studies, Asian studies scholars, global historians
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 277
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
- Maps: 5
- Tables: 9
Keywords: Slavery; Bondage; Dependency; Early modern Asia

eBook

Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110777246

Hardcover

Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110776126