‘Belonging to the Company’: Transporting and documenting unfree labour in the Indian Ocean, 1719–1790

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY
Margaret E. Schotte
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Abstract

Over the course of the eighteenth century, French East India Company ships carried numerous sailors, soldiers, passengers and unfree labourers to and from various ports of trade in the Indian Ocean. Although European merchant companies developed extensive documenting systems, certain elements received little attention in the records. When it came to tracking unfree labourers, Company employees used terminology with ambiguous meanings and categories that were codified in the Atlantic context and therefore not initially applicable in the Indian Ocean. In order for historians to interpret these records more accurately, this article reviews specific terminology and pertinent French legislation about racialized labourers. This contextual information helps to uncover previously overlooked groups of unfree labourers working for – and, at times, trying to escape from – the French East India Company in the Indian Ocean and beyond.
属于公司":1719-1790 年印度洋非自由劳工的运输和记录
十八世纪期间,法国东印度公司的船只载着众多水手、士兵、乘客和非自由劳工往返于印度洋的各个贸易港口。尽管欧洲商船公司开发了广泛的记录系统,但某些内容在记录中却很少受到关注。在追踪非自由劳工时,公司员工使用的术语和类别含义模糊,这些术语和类别是在大西洋背景下编纂的,因此最初并不适用于印度洋。为了让历史学家更准确地解读这些记录,本文回顾了有关种族化劳工的特定术语和相关法国法律。这些背景信息有助于揭示以前被忽视的在印度洋及其他地区为法国东印度公司工作--有时试图逃离--的非自由劳工群体。
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