Slavery, conversion, and religious geography in Portuguese India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Slaves toiled in Portuguese India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, originating from a variety of places, including East Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and different parts of India. Yet, the legal status they occupied, the types of tasks they completed, and their ethnic origins were not the only ways in which they were identified. In the early modern Portuguese world, their religious affiliation formed a key component of identity. Through the establishment of the Goan Inquisition, detailed information about slaves' religious choices, words, and actions entered the written historical record. This dissertation examines the complex world of slavery in sixteenth and seventeenth- century Portuguese India. It utilizes detailed Goan and Lisbon Inquisition cases of slaves and slaveholders, contextualizing the cases with 2254 Goan Inquisition case summaries. This dissertation explores the flights of slaves and freed slaves in the context of overlapping political and religious spatial boundaries, investigating the political implications of slaves' conversions to Islam. Most slaves prosecuted by the Goan Inquisition were converts to Islam from Catholicism, which I argue is significant given that in this era Muslims were considered both religious and political enemies. Drawing from the Lisbon Tribunal cases of New Christians residing in Goa, this dissertation also examines the nature of master-slave relations, during an era in which inquisitors intervened in the master-slave hierarchy.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Hassell, Stephanie Nicole |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Primary advisor | Roberts, Richard, active 1899 |
| Thesis advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Roberts, Richard, active 1899 |
| Thesis advisor | Campbell, James |
| Advisor | Campbell, James |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Stephanie Nicole Hassell. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Stephanie Nicole Hassell
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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