Subtitle: Colonial servitude and resistance in Sri Lanka
Author: Wickramasinghe, Nira
Year: 2020
ISBN: 9780231197632
Pages: 299
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publisher's city: New York
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Slave in a Palanquin
€37.95
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.