Part 1 Negotiating slavery - informal contracts and cash rewards: chattel slaves to wage slaves - a Jamaican case study, Mary Turner; strategies into slave subsistence - the Jamaican case reconsidered, R.B. Sheridan; strategies of slave subsistence - foods, markets and survival, Michael Mullin; "Never on Sunday?" - slavery and the Sabbath in Lawacountry, Georgia 1750-1830, Betty Wood; work and resistance in the New Republic - the case of Chesapeake 1770-1820, Lorena Welsh; proto-proletarians? slave wages in the Americas, O. Nigel Bolland; wages for freedom in urban Surinam 1760-1830, Rosemary Brana-Shute; a slow and extended abolition - the Bahamas 1800-1838, Howard Johnson. Part 2 Counteracting freedom - contract and coercion: between slavery and free labour - in Brazil and Cuba, Lucia Lamounier; resistance among Asian plantation workers in Peru 1870-1920; the worker and the wage in a plantation economy - Trinidad in the late 19th century, Kusha Haraksingh. Part 3 Achieving rights for labour - confrontation and collective bargaining: contested terrains - houses, provision grounds and the reconstitution of labour in post-emancipation Martinique, Dale Tomich; post-emancipation protest in Jamaica - the Morant Bay rebellion 1865, Gad Heuman; the pursuit of "higher wages" and "perfect personal freedom" in St Kitts-Nevis 1836-1956, Glen Richards.
