Tag: 19th century

  • 13. The Story of a Worldly Southeast Asian Female Informant

    13. The Story of a Worldly Southeast Asian Female Informant

    By Jess Winstanley John Anderson’s Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823 reports his voyage to the Pacific commissioned by the British East India Company. Sent out with economic and political briefings, Anderson was not expected to make any commentary on the people he encountered on his travels. However, grounded in the racialised…