Slave in a Palanquin : : Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka / / Nira Wickramasinghe.
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the is...
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Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 13 b&w illustrations, 5 maps |
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