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Why We Need a Global Narrative of Slavery
Dec 21 2022
By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global PowerLike most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of study: the history of a single Jamaican slave plantation. At that time, in the late 60’s, slavery was not a commo
Forgotten Histories of Indian Convicts in Colonial Southeast Asia
Jan 22 2021
By Anand A. Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia“Many years ago,” began a story in a Singapore-based newspaper in 1899, “it used to be customary to transport convicts from India to this Colony.” That article profiled a courthouse scene of fisticu