Cape slaves in the paper empire of the VOC
This article examines the ways in which the voluminous archive of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) controlled, constructed and delimited the presence of slaves in the paper world of the VOC empire. The extensive paper archive of the VOC recorded slaves in ways which matched the concerns of the adm...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
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Series: | Kronos |
Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902014000100002&lng=en&tlng=en |