Slave in a palanquin : colonial servitude and resistance in Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe.
"From the very early days of the Western colonial project, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopping point in the Indian Ocean. For four hundred years, Sri Lanka transferred from the Portuguese, to the Dutch, to the British, serving for all of them as a crossroads in transnational trade in...
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A Dutch Fiscal's Murder: Interrogating the Identity of Slaves, Blacks, and "Kaffirs"
- 2. From Colombo to Galle: Enslaved Bodies in an Archive of Violence
- 3. Slave in a Palanquin: Jaffna in the Early Nineteenth Century
- 4. The Chilaw "Experiment": Labor for Freedom
- 5. The Plaint of an Emancipated Slave: A Play in Two Acts
- 6. Eclipse of the Slave: Traces, Hauntings
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.