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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean

Historiography suggests that the different ways in which people were enslaved (e.g. through war, kidnapping, debt, birth) mattered greatly for how they resisted and were treated under slavery. These links remain largely unexplored, but are vital to re-understanding the history and present of slavery. This project studies how responses to modes of enslavement impacted i) slave trade patterns, ii) labelling and treatment, and iii) strategies of enslaved across the Indian Ocean, Indonesian archipelago and Atlantic. The project employs a global (micro)historical approach to study the uniquely detailed material from colonial court records containing voices of enslaved and other actors as…

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