The Amboyna Business
This chapter reconstructs the conspiracy trial on Ambon in 1623 by drawing on over fifty depositions and other sources, almost all created after the trial. It analyzes why a Japanese soldier’s questions triggered VOC suspicions of a regional plot featuring Japanese, English, and Indo-Portuguese co-conspirators, and why the alleged plot took the form the VOC believed it did. It explores the role of torture in the legal process. In the course of presenting a narrative of the conspiracy trial, it sifts through conflicting perspectives and interpretations of events. Almost all aspects of the trial were later disputed in Europe, and this chapter deals directly with the interpretive problems posed by the surviving sources.
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Vol 47
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pp. 80-91
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Vol 30
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pp. 213-219
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