Slavery in a Remote but Global Place
The British East India Company and Bencoolen, 1685-1825
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9388387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard B Allen (0000-0002-1671-8493, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-151 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social and Education History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2014-3567 • E-ISSN: 2014-3567 |
| Publisher | Hipatia Press (PUBLISHER • ES) |
| DOI | 10.17583/hse.2018.3374 |
| OpenAlex | W2810566970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
Histories of the British East India Company usually ignore the company’s use of slave labor. Records from its factory at Bencoolen in Sumatra provide an opportunity to examine company attitudes and policies toward its chattel work force in greater detail. These sources reveal that the company drew slaves from a global catchment area to satisfy the demand for labor in its far-flung commercial empire, shed light on policies and practices regarding the treatment of company slaves, and illustrate the company’s role in the development of increasingly interconnected free and forced labor trades during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Bencoolen case study also highlights the need to examine colonial migrant labor systems in the Indian Ocean and maritime Asia worlds in more fully developed contexts
Ancient history · Archaeology · Business · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Factory (object-oriented programming · Geography · Work (physics · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
Sepoys, Servants and Settlers
The Corporation That Changed the World
Global Migration, 1846–1940
Chinese Migration and Settlement in Southeast Asia Before 1850
A bitter draught
Rethinking Empire in India and the Atlantic
Working across the Seas
The Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs 1787-1805
East India Company in Sumatra
Networks of Empire
Convicts in the Indian Ocean
The Mascarene Slave-Trade and Labour Migration in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The World's Oldest Trade
Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System
Ending the history of silence
Subaltern Lives
Convicts and Coolies
The Transatlantic Market for British Convict Labor
Slave trading and slavery in the Dutch colonial empire
The British East India Company and African Slavery in Benkulen, Sumatra, 1687-1792
The East India Company and the Madagascar Slave Trade
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848
European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800
Systems of Domination after Slavery
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |