Abstract

Recent years have witnessed an expanding body of scholarship indicating the importance of slave trade and slavery in different parts of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds. This work has not only challenged the dominant focus of slavery scholarship on the Atlantic context but has also encouraged scholars to reassess wider perspectives on Asian and global social histories. This special issue brings together contributions that explore these new horizons. Together, they take up the issue of slavery and mobility in different parts of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds from a comparative perspective, dealing not only with the existence and patterns of slave trade itself but also with its social and sociopolitical implications. These articles require us to rethink some of the dominant perspectives in a historiography that for a long time has emphasized the unique and local character of “Asian” slaveries, positing dichotomies between slavery in the Atlantic and elsewhere, as well as between Western and non-Western slaveries. The contributions to this special issue challenge several of these existing dichotomies and provide new contributions to the understanding of the role and importance of slavery from a global perspective, as well as to the history of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds. This introduction reflects on this collective contribution and aims to provide an outline for a relevant research agenda.

中文翻译：

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亚洲奴隶贸易和奴隶制的新观点

摘要

近年来，越来越多的学者开始研究表明奴隶贸易和奴隶制在印度洋和印度尼西亚群岛世界不同地区的重要性。这项工作不仅挑战了奴隶制学术在大西洋背景下的主导地位，而且还鼓励学者重新评估关于亚洲和全球社会历史的广泛观点。本期特刊汇集了探索这些新视野的贡献。他们从比较的角度共同探讨了印度洋和印度尼西亚群岛世界不同地区的奴隶制和迁徙问题，不仅涉及奴隶贸易本身的存在和方式，还涉及其社会和社会政治影响。这些文章要求我们重新思考史学中的一些主要观点，这些史学长期以来一直强调“亚洲”奴隶制的独特和地方特色，在大西洋与其他地方的奴隶制之间，以及西方与非奴隶制之间建立了二分法。西方奴隶制。对这一特殊问题的贡献挑战了这些现有的两分法，并为从全球角度理解奴隶制的作用和重要性以及印度洋和印度尼西亚群岛世界的历史提供了新的贡献。引言反映了这一集体贡献，旨在为相关研究议程提供一个大纲。以及在西方和非西方奴隶制之间。对这一特殊问题的贡献挑战了这些现有的两分法，并为从全球角度理解奴隶制的作用和重要性以及印度洋和印度尼西亚群岛世界的历史提供了新的贡献。引言反映了这一集体贡献，旨在为相关研究议程提供一个大纲。以及在西方和非西方奴隶制之间。对这一特殊问题的贡献挑战了这些现有的两分法，并为从全球角度理解奴隶制的作用和重要性以及印度洋和印度尼西亚群岛世界的历史提供了新的贡献。引言反映了这一集体贡献，旨在为相关研究议程提供一个大纲。