Re-Visualizing Slavery: Visual Sources about Slavery in Asia
- ISBN-10
- 9460220118
- ISBN-13
- 9789460220111
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-05
- Authors
- Nancy Jouwe, Wim Manuhutu, Matthias Van Rossum
Description
In Re-visualizing Slavery, historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scientists shed new light on the history of slavery in Asia by centering visual sources--specifically, Dutch paintings, watercolors and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by terms such as 'mild, ' 'debt, ' and 'household, ' but new historical research that utilizes the versatility, power of expression, and silences of and within visual sources explicitly points to it as violent and harsh in character--comparable to the Atlantic history of slavery.
