Mardjikers

Excerpts about the Mardjikers, from www.jakarta.go.id:

The term for city dwellers from the group of people of Portuguese descent, originally from India, Indonesia and the other Catholic. They generally are the prisoners who were slaves-purchase by the Dutch. Mostly as maids Dutch artisans to make meubelair that brought together the Company. They were promised to be given the freedom of the condition would be a member of Reformation Church, the Christian church, therefore they are called Mardijkers or "freedmen". Mardijkers Sanskrit  maharddhika, maharika, or grootmachlig which literally means "freedom from slavery" or "have a great power". In Batavia and Maluku are used to designate a group of people who are ethnically very diverse, which is formed by the descendants of former slaves from Angola or Indians and descendants of mixed marriages Portuguese and other Europeans during the 16th century. In the Moluccas (Ambon, Ternate) the title of "Swarten Christenen", is the remnant of Portuguese contact products in eastern Indonesia generally come to be known as the Portuguese-speaking Mardijkers.

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