Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean

Manuhutu, Wim | Paperback / softback | 09-12-2021 | 9789460220371

Revisualizing slavery explores the history of slavery in Asia by focusing on visual sources. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by words such as ‘mild’, ‘guilt’ and ‘domestic’. But this is shifting by new historical research that points precisely to the tougher sides and to similarities with the Atlantic slavery past