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Book talk | The Christian slaves of Depok: A colonial tale unravels

Leiden University, Johan Huizinga Building, room 2.60

This book recounts the little-known history of Cornelis Chastelein, a high-ranking official of the Dutch East India Company and the 150-200 enslaved people he purchased from slave markets around South-East Asia to work his landed estates in the Batavian (Jakarta) hinterlands.