Slave trading and slave resistance in the Indian Ocean world
The case of early eighteenth-century Bengal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9352894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Titas Chakraborty (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 706-726 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Frank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2019.1606525 |
| OpenAlex | W2943191580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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 slaves from all over the Indian Ocean littoral. The various acts of resistance by settlement slaves show that these slaves utilized their cultural backgrounds as well as their knowledge of diverse cultural and political milieus of early eighteenth-century Bengal in creating a cosmopolitan culture of resistance. These dynamics of slave trading and resistance place Bengal within a trans-regional, Indian Ocean network of slavery
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bay · BENGAL · Business · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human settlement · Indian ocean · Littoral zone · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Settlement (finance · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Oceanography
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |