Abstract

This study rethinks the patterns of slave-holding and slave trade that can be discerned in small-scale societies in the Timor region of the Indonesian archipelago, especially Timor, the Solor and Alor Islands, Rote, and Savu. It studies how European powers—the Dutch and the Portuguese—influenced the trade in enslaved human beings and how this was balanced by slaving conducted by Asian forces. The study is based in large part on archival sources from the VOC period, together with published Portuguese sources. Data on these issues provides some basis for comparisons with other, better documented cases of slavery and slaving in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. This contributes to an understanding of how local systems of slavery interacted with the transregional systems represented by external groups.

中文翻译：

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东帝汶地区的奴隶和奴隶贸易：土著结构与外部影响之间

摘要

这项研究重新思考了在印度尼西亚群岛的帝汶地区，特别是帝汶，索罗和亚罗群岛，罗特和萨武的小规模社会中可以辨别的奴隶持有和奴隶贸易的模式。它研究了欧洲大国荷兰和葡萄牙如何影响被奴役者的贸易，以及如何通过亚洲军队的奴役来平衡这种贸易。这项研究主要基于VOC时期的档案资料，以及已发表的葡萄牙语资料。这些问题的数据为与东南亚及其他地区的其他文献记载得更好的奴隶制和奴役案例进行比较提供了基础。这有助于了解奴隶制的本地系统如何与外部群体代表的跨地区系统相互作用。