![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The World’s Oldest Trade”: Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth CenturyĪbstract: This article discusses various aspects of slavery and the slave trade of the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean world: the markets of supply and demand or geographic origins and destinations of slaves the routes to slavery or the diverse means of recruitment of forced labor the miscellaneous occupations performed by company and private slaves the size of Dutch slavery and the volume of the accompanying annual slave trade and the various forms of slave resistance and slave revolt. They illuminate different stages in Western attitudes toward slavery and other forms of unfree labor, and they shed light on the attitudes of slaves, convicts, and indentured laborers themselves. Free and Unfree Labor Migration, 1600–1900: An IntroductionĪbstract: The following three papers share a common interest in Asian and African overseas labor migrations that Westerners organized and manipulated during the centuries between 16. ![]()
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