Abstract
The histories of the British East India Company, possessions, political influence, and economic ventures have shaped the dynamics of modern history. The enormity of the British East India Company (EIC) and other European trade companies’ impact on globalized world trade has been the subject of numerous studies. Yet, as many scholars have pointed out the topic has lacked proper attention regarding the Indian Ocean slave trade, particularly when it involved the transportation of people from nations other than from the continent of Africa. As Jayasuriya (2005, 2006) stated, “Africans were not the only people to be enslaved within the boundaries of the Indian Ocean.”
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the documentation of the British East India Company and slave labor, specifically East Indian enslavement and relocation via slaving ships to other regions including the Americas.
Recommended Citation
Pinkston, Bonnie
(2018)
"Documenting the British East India Company and their Involvement in the East Indian Slave Trade,"
SLIS Connecting: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
DOI: 10.18785/slis.0701.10
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https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol7/iss1/10
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