Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I A Dutch Fiscal’s Murder: Interrogating the Identity of Slaves, Blacks, and “Kaffirs” 16
7. II From Colombo to Galle: Enslaved Bodies in an Archive of Violence 51
8. III Slave in a Palanquin: Jaffna in the Early Nineteenth Century 89
9. IV The Chilaw “Experiment”: Labor for Freedom 126
10. V The Plaint of an Emancipated Slave: A Play in Two Acts 160
11. VI Eclipse of the Slave: Traces, Hauntings 189
12. Glossary 209
13. Notes 213
14. Bibliography 263
15. Index 291