A woman cooking in a European house in Batavia, likely an enslaved person.
Detail from the sketchbook of Jan Brandes, dl. 2 (1808), p. 23.
Echoes of genocidal erasure: a reflection on historical ‘voices’ and digital infrastructure for colonial archives
This blog traces the fragmented story of Maria, an enslaved woman from Liuqiu. Her case exposes the violence masked by the Dutch East India Company’s claims of humane governance and shows how projects such as GLOBALISE and Voices of Resistance are transforming our ability to uncover marginalized lives and the afterlives of colonial genocide.