Recollections of Ceylon, After a Residence of Nearly Thirteen Years
Author : James Selkirk
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Page : 590 pages
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Release : 1844
Category : Missions
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Author : James Selkirk
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Page : 590 pages
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Author : James Selkirk
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ISBN : 9788170131090
Author : James Selkirk
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Author : Selkirk
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Author : James Selkirk
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Page : 582 pages
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Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780483052277
Excerpt from Recollections of Ceylon: After a Residence of Nearly Thirteen Years, 1844, With an Account of the Church Missionary Society's Operations in the Island and Extracts From a Journal I DO not think it necessary to say much by way of preface. The following sheets give a plain and faithful account of the Island of Ceylon in its pre sent state. I have thought it beside my purpose to enter into any history of the Island, as that may be derived from Cordiner and Davy, both of whose works have been long before the English public. From my extended acquaintance with the natives, acquired by long residence among them, I was en abled to gain such a knowledge of the country and of its varied population, as I thought would be ia teresting to the English in general and, therefore, from time to time, since my return to the land of my birth, I have occupied myself in putting toge ther the ensuing remarks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Selkirk
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Page : 602 pages
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Release : 2020-04-29
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ISBN : 9780461840117
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Author : James Selkirk
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Author : American Oriental Society
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Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0231552262
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.