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Paperback. In Re-visualizing Slavery, historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scientists shed new light on the history of slavery in Asia by centering visual sourcesspecifically, Dutch paintings, watercolors and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by terms such as mild, debt, and household, but new historical research that utilizes the versatility, power of expression, and silences of and within visual sources explicitly points to it as violent and harsh in charactercomparable to the Atlantic history of slavery. In Re-visualizing Slavery, historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scientists shed new light on the history of slavery in Asia by centering visual sourcesspecifically, Dutch paintings, watercolors and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.