"The World's Oldest Trade": Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century

@article{Vink2003TheWO,
  title={"The World's Oldest Trade": Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century},
  author={Markus Vink},
  journal={Journal of World History},
  year={2003},
  volume={14},
  pages={131 - 177}
}
  • Markus Vink
  • Published 2003
  • History
  • Journal of World History
    • This article discusses various aspects of slavery and the slave trade of the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean world: the markets of supply and demand or geographic origins and destinations of slaves; the routes to slavery or the diverse means of recruitment of forced labor; the miscellaneous occupations performed by company and private slaves; the size of Dutch slavery and the volume of the accompanying annual slave trade; and the various forms of slave resistance and slave revolt… CONTINUE READING
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