Book · March 4, 2025
Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Benga ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
This chapter provides a comprehensive history of various forms of slavery in what came to be known in historical works as the Indian Ocean World, or a specific zone of multi-regional connections through maritime practices. It explores the dynamics of ensla ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social History · September 1, 2020
AbstractRecent years have witnessed an expanding body of scholarship indicating the importance of slave trade and slavery in different parts of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds. This work h ...
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Journal ArticleSlavery and Abolition · October 2, 2019
This article examines slave trading and slave resistance in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the English East India Company (EIC) settlements in early eighteenth-century Bengal. VOC and EIC officials exported slaves from Bengal, but also imported sla ...
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Book · July 30, 2019
Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Review of Social History · April 1, 2019
This article examines the various experiences of slavery and freedom of female household workers in the Dutch and English East India Company (VOC and EIC, respectively) ports in Bengal in the early eighteenth century. Enslaved household workers in Bengal c ...
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