Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

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