by cambodianredneck » Sun May 01, 2016 12:11 pm
On 24 July 1587, he sent the following letter to the Jesuit Vice-Provincial Gaspar Coelho, preserved in Luis Frois’s Historia de Japam:
‘”It has come to our attention that Portuguese, Siamese, and Cambodians who come to our shores to trade are buying many people, taking them captive to their kingdoms, ripping Japanese away from their homeland, families, children and friends. This is insufferable. Thus, would the Padre ensure that all those Japanese who have up until now been sold in India and other distant places be returned again to Japan. If this is not possible, because they are far away in remote kingdoms, then at least have the Portuguese set free the people whom they have bought recently. I will provide the money necessary to do this.”‘ [p. 465
- See more at:
http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=3496#sth ... VfZHC.dpuf
This is quites the revelation for me, never knew that khmers traded in Japanese slaves. I wonder what happened to the japanese in cambodia? Did they go back to japan or assimilate into khmer society?
On 24 July 1587, he sent the following letter to the Jesuit Vice-Provincial Gaspar Coelho, preserved in Luis Frois’s Historia de Japam:
‘”It has come to our attention that Portuguese, Siamese, and Cambodians who come to our shores to trade are buying many people, taking them captive to their kingdoms, ripping Japanese away from their homeland, families, children and friends. This is insufferable. Thus, would the Padre ensure that all those Japanese who have up until now been sold in India and other distant places be returned again to Japan. If this is not possible, because they are far away in remote kingdoms, then at least have the Portuguese set free the people whom they have bought recently. I will provide the money necessary to do this.”‘ [p. 465
- See more at: http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=3496#sthash.7z0VfZHC.dpuf
This is quites the revelation for me, never knew that khmers traded in Japanese slaves. I wonder what happened to the japanese in cambodia? Did they go back to japan or assimilate into khmer society?