Slaves from the Tamil Coast and European Trade Around the World, 1547-1792
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- ISBN 9789360800758
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the lives of individuals who were enslaved, bought, sold, and forcibly transported across continents from the Tamil coast. It argues that the region was deeply entangled in the global slave trade through European commercial networks. Tracing the journeys of Tamil slaves to destinations such as Melaka, Manila, Macao, Mexico City, Colima, Cape Town, Mauritius, Réunion, St. Helena, and beyond – including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, and North America – the study explores their social interactions, labor experiences, and forced migrations. By drawing on underutilized yet richly detailed archival sources, this volume offers new insights into transnational and global history, focusing on merchant networks, global markets, and intercontinental shipping.
S. Jeyaseela Stephen was the Directeur (2013-2023) of Institute pour études Indo-Européennes. He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-13) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, He has authored numerous books including The Coromandel Coast and its Hinterland: Economy, Society and Political System, 1500-1600 (1997); Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries (2009); Oceanscapes: Tamil Textiles in the Early Modern World (2014); A Meeting of the Minds: European and Tamil Encounters in Modern Sciences, 1507-1857 (2016); History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel Coast, Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries (2023). His books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, German and Tamil. He is the recipient of the best book prize of 1999 from the Government of Tamil Nadu and Thiru Vi Ka award of 2023 of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
