Self-Enslavement as Resistance to the State? Siamese Early Modern Laws on Slavery

IF 0.5 4区 历史学 0 ASIAN STUDIES
Eugénie Mérieau
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abstract:I examine slavery laws, as reproduced in the 1805 Three Seals Code, as well as accounts of Europeans, to compare the legal conditions of enslaved people and serfs in early modern Siam. I argue that the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya (1350–1767) was a slave society where contractual self-enslavement was a widespread means for serfs to escape required corvée and military service to the state. I also suggest that differentiating indigenous contractual slaves (temporary, collateral, and permanent), who were protected to various degrees by the law, from enslaved foreign war captives, who were potentially outside of any legal framework, invites us to rethink freedom and slavery as a continuum rather than a dichotomy. :
自我奴役是对国家的抵抗?暹罗近代早期奴隶制法律
我考察了1805年《三印法典》中再现的奴隶制法律,以及欧洲人的记载,以比较近代早期暹罗奴隶和农奴的法律状况。我认为大城府的暹罗王国(1350-1767)是一个奴隶社会,在那里,契约自我奴役是农奴逃避必要的流放和兵役的普遍手段。我还建议,将在不同程度上受到法律保护的土著契约奴隶(临时的、附带的和永久的)与可能处于任何法律框架之外的被奴役的外国战俘区分开来,可以让我们重新思考自由和奴隶制是一个连续体,而不是一个二分法。:
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