This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in

Introduction; Part I Frontiers; Colonization and Slavery in Central America; Land-Labour Relations in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Formation of Grazing Haciendas; The Colours of Property: Brown, White and Black Chattels and their Responses on the Caribbean Frontier; Work, Labour and the Market: The Response of Farmers and Semi-Nomadic Peoples to Colonialism in North-West Mexico; Part II Old Worlds, New Worlds; The Criminalization of 'Free' Labour: Master and Servant in Comparative Perspective; Vagrancy, Impressment and the Regulation of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Freedom at Issue: Vagrancy Legislation and the Meaning of Freedom in Britain and the Cape Colony, 1799-1842; Background to Rebellion: The Origins of Muslim Slaves in Bahia; Part III Aftermath of Abolition; The Transition from Slavery to Migrant; Labour in Rural Brazil; Slavery, the International Labour Market and the Emancipation of Slaves in the Nineteenth Century; Slavery and Pawnship in the Yoruba; Economy of the Nineteenth Century; Freedom and Slavery and the Shaping of Victorian Britain