Abstract

ABSTRACT Recent research highlights the need for historians to include India in discussions about the global traffic in chattel labour that developed after 1500. Hitherto ignored archival sources permit a more detailed understanding of enslavement in India and the nature, dynamics, and legacy of the British, Danish, Dutch, French, and Portuguese trades which transported hundreds of thousands of enslaved Indian men, women, and children throughout and beyond the Indian Ocean world during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

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