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Introduction: Slavery and other forms of Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World
Slavery: A Question of Definition
The Academic Debate
Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World
The Politics of Defining Slavery
The Need for a Definition of Slavery
ABBREVIATION
NOTES
A Forgotten Corner of the Indian Ocean: Gujarati Merchants, Portuguese India and the Mozambique Slave-Trade, c.1730–1830
Indian Merchants and Slave Ownership in Mozambique
The Mozambique Slave-Trade and Slave Exports to Portuguese India
Numbers, Sex Ratios and Prices
Conclusion
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
The Mascarene Slave-Trade and Labour Migration in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Mascarene Slave-Trade to 1848
The Mascarene Slave-Trade and the Wider Indian Ocean World
Conclusion
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
Flight to Freedom: Escape from Slavery among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean world, c.1750–1962
Introduction
Runaways and petit marronage
Grand marronage and Maroon Societies
Conclusions
NOTES
Violent Capture of People for Exchange on Karen-Tai borders in the 1830s
Social Identities of some of the Principal Actors
Slave Raiders, Traders and their Victims
Exchange Value of Slaves
Slave Raiding and Warfare
Quantitative Significance of the Slave-Trade
Concluding Comments
NOTES
Human Capital, Slavery and Low Rates of Economic and Population Growth in Indonesia, 1600–1910
Introduction
The Demand for Slaves
Slavery, Serfdom and Debt Bondage
The Supply of Slaves
A Proposed ‘Unified Field Theory’
The Demographics of Slavery
Epilogue
NOTES
Forced Labour Mobilization in Java during the Second World War
Javanese Labourers Overseas
Java and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Romusha Mobilization within Java
Mining Operations
Provision of Food and Clothing
Work Conditions
Concluding Remarks
NOTES
The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Introduction
Slavery in the Sulu Sultanate
Manumission, Ransom or Escape
Conclusion
NOTES
Slavery and Colonial Representations in Indochina from the Second Half of the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
The Victims of Slavery
The Slave-trade
Slave Functions and Conditions
Colonial Propaganda: Representations and Repercussions
The Impact of Explorer Accounts
Conclusion
NOTES
Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
Introduction
Origins of Slavery
The Structure of Slavery
Official Slavery
Private Slavery
The Slave Import and Export Trade
Conclusion
NOTES
Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery
Introduction
The Mode of Existence of Nobis: Slave or Serf?
The Disintegration of the Nobi System during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Sources of Supply
Epilogue: The Final Collapse of the Nobi System
NOTES
A Theme in Variations: A Historical Schema1 of Slaving in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions
Indian Ocean Region
Europe
The Americas
Africa
In Lieu of Conclusions: The Atlantic Paradigm in Asian (and African) Perspective
NOTES
Map
Notes on Contributors
Index
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