Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. 1. Introduction: Here Are Lions 7
4. Literary Imaginations
5. 2. Enslaved to the Passions : Slavery, Emotions, and Trade in a Seventeenth- Century Dutch Comedy 31
6. 3. ‘Pleasant and Useful Reading for Dutch Youth’ : Attitudes on Slavery in A. E. van Noothoorn’s Fictional Travel Accounts for Children (1843–1851) 55
7. 4. Convict Labour and Concubinage in the Dutch East Indies : Historical and Literary Reappropriations of Martha Christina Tiahahu’s Anti-Colonial Revolt 77
8. Intersecting Imaginations
9. 5. The Elephant and Slavery : Thinking about Slavery through the Animal in the Early Modern Dutch Empire 101
10. 6. Law as a Sociocultural Imaginary : Legal Arguments, Social Hierarchy and Pro-Slavery in the Dutch Republic, c. 1760–1780 127
11. 7. Januari’s Ghost 1: A Tale of Slavery, Sexuality, and Boyhood on Board a VOC Vessel 147
12. 8. Transformative Work : An Antislavery Petition at the National Exhibition of Women’s Labour, 1898 167
13. Visual and Spatial Imaginations
14. 9. Not Absent, But Not Seen : Narrating the History of Slavery at the Cape 187
15. 10. (Re)Visualising Slavery : An Outlook on the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago 209
16. 11. Making an Embodied Absence Present : Tourism and the Cultural Imaginary of Slavery and Colonial Heritage in the Netherlands 235
17. 12. Reframing History : The Artistic Reclamation of Colonial Photography and the Quest for De-Victimisation 253
18. 13. Imagining Dutch Slavery Legacies Through the Rural-Urban Divide in the TV Show Grenslanders 273
19. Philosophical Imaginations
20. 14. Born in Bondage : Slavery, Freedom, and Enlightenment in Spinoza 295
21. 15. Coordinates of a Slave’s Body in a Philosopher’s Dream 313
22. 16. Human-ing Out Loud : Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean Option 329
23. 17. Epilogue : Histories of Imagination and the Making of Cultural Archives 347
24. Index 363