Slavery, however, has never been the subject of study. Modern narratives of history, thus, exploit the existence of slavery simply to prove that Thailand was free and civilized. Since then, freedom was construed as being the opposite of slavery. Yet in the middle of the nineteenth century when Siam confronted with Western powers, its élite quickly constructed a narrative of the emergence of the first Thai kingdom of Sukhothai which was founded on the idea of freedom or Tai. Despite the long history of slavery it played subsidiary roles on the development of economy and politics of a society and kingdom. Slavery had been practiced throughout the Thai history, starting from the early kingdom of Sukhothai in the 14th to the 16th and 17th century Ayutthaya Empire and continuing into the Rattanakosin or Bangkok kingdom before it was abolished in 1905. Offering examples from different historiographies across the 20th century, I draw attention to the confused and at times contradictory readings of slavery. This paper explores the nature of slavery in Thailand’s history writing.
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