Britt van Duijvenvoorde

‘As Many People with the Ships as can be Gotten’: Revisiting Enslavement and the Slave Trade on the Coromandel Coast

This article revisits the Dutch East India Company slave trading networks in the Bay of Bengal in the seventeenth century. It relies on the extensive but understudied archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to provide new insights on local structures of enslavement as well...