An erased colonial official remained affiliated with Java’s sugar elite

Evidence

But enjoying neither success nor fame,Valck’s scent was faint, his imprint gone, his account of torture wholly erased. What he did share, however, was a family connection to one of the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs in the development of Java’s midnineteenth-century agricultural industry—Theodore Lucassen, whose father in 1840 gained renown for first adapting French sugar beet refining techniques to large-scale sugar cane processing in the Indies. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1297

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s interested in colonial archivality and how family/genealogical networks reconstruct what state archives erase.