Slavery, Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period

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Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Slavery, Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period -- 2. Slavery in Captivity: Location, Colonial Slavery and Early Modern Japan -- 3. Religion, Slavery and Resistance in Cape Town during the Dutch Colonial Period (1652-1795) -- 4. Philip Quaque: An Anglican Missionary Making Sense of Slavery on the Early Modern Gold Coast -- 5. In the Shadows of War: Early Ottomans and the Controversy of One-Fifth Booty (Pençik) -- 6. Slave Voices Unveiled: Practices of Slavery, Dynamics of Agency and Asymmetrical Dependency in the Early Modern Crimean Khanate -- 7. From Slave Violence to the Enchanting Argument. Jesuit Missionary Views of Colonial Paraguay in the Historia of Nicolas del Techo -- 8. Historical Freeze Frames on the Infantilisation of Native Americans: Representations of the Relationship between Churchmen and Indigenous People in the Spanish Colonial Context -- 9. Slavery, Law and Protestant Mission in Eighteenth-Century Tranquebar -- 10. Edmund Burke and the Moral Struggle of the British Empire -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.