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14 février 2024

Sukriti Issar, « The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay », Slavery & Abolition, 2024

Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Sukriti Issar intitulé « The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay », dans la revue Slavery & Abolition en janvier 2024. Abstract How did property in persons manifest itself in late eighteenth-century Bombay? This article uses judicial records to explore how the master-slave relationship could be inverted: a woman sued a man who claimed to ‘own’ her for the money she spent on maintaining him. These records provide a unique insight into the biography and everyday life of an urban slave in this period and the intertwining of domesticity, caste, religion and kin-building. Jaffer […]