Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54917-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 755 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Slavery

Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts.

Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allen, Richard B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures, Maps and Table

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia

Richard B. Allen

Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status

1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis

Anthony Reid

2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia

Jessica Hinchy

3 Gender and Slavery in Asia

Shawna Herzog

Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia

4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire

Don J. Wyatt

5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us

Harriet T. Zurndorfer

6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China

Claude Chevaleyre

7 Korea: A Slave Society

Christopher Lovins

8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China

Bonny Ling

Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism

9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730

Michael D. Bennett

10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines

Stephanie Mawson

11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes

James Francis Warren

12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century

Hans Hägerdal

13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations

Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena

Part 4: Reflections

14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery

Jeff Fynn-Paul

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard B. Allen, Ph.D. (1983), is the author of European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850 (Ohio University Press, 2014) and numerous articles, book chapters, and essays on slavery, slave trading, abolition, and indentured labor in the Indian Ocean world and Asia.