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- Title
The Trade in Domestic Servants (Morianer) from Tranquebar for Upper Class Danish Homes in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century.
- Authors
Izquierdo Díaz, Jorge Simón; Naum, Magdalena
- Abstract
This paper explores the Danish East India Company's slave trade practice in Tranquebar in the first half of the seventeenth century. In particular it focuses on a practice of acquiring black Morianer (Moors) as prestigious servants for aristocratic homes. The court of the Danish king Christian IV was familiar with the exotic inlay of Morians as represented in pictures, theatre, carrousels, and other artistic manifestations of the upper classes of that time. In this sense, I suggest that Hans Hansson Skonning's Geographia historica Orientalis (1641) provides seminal clues about ideology justifying slavery and representations of Africa and Asia in Scandinavian countries before they entered the slave trade.
- Subjects
DANSKE ostindiske kompagni; HISTORY of slave trades; MAURE (African people); HISTORY of slavery; SCANDINAVIAN history; DANISH history
- Publication
Itinerario, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
0165-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0165115319000238