Slave in a Palanquin
Slave in a Palanquin For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka--then…
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Slave in a Palanquin
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. 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. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade.
She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who 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.
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