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 the West.
Introduction 1(10) Paul E. Lovejoy Nicholas Rogers Part I Frontiers Colonization and Slavery in Central America 11(15) O. Nigel Bolland Land-Labour Relations in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Formation of Grazing Haciendas 26(10) Elinor G. K. Melville The Colours of Property: Brown, White and Black Chattels and their Responses on the Caribbean Frontier 36(16) Hilary McD. Beckles Work, Labour and the Market: The Response of Farmers and Semi-Nomadic Peoples to Colonialism in North-West Mexico 52(19) Cynthia Radding Part II Old Worlds, New Worlds The Criminalization of `Free Labour: Master and Servant in Comparative Perspective 71(31) Paul Craven Douglas Hay Vagrancy, Impressment and the Regulation of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Britain 102(12) Nicholas Rogers Freedom at Issue: Vagrancy Legislation and the Meaning of Freedom in Britain and the Cape Colony, 1799-1842 114(37) Elizabeth Elbourne Background to Rebellion: The Origins of Muslim Slaves in Bahia 151(32) Paul E. Lovejoy Part III Aftermath of Abolition The Transition from Slavery to Migrant Labour in Rural Brazil 183(14) Nancy Priscilla Naro Slavery, the International Labour Market and the Emancipation of Slaves in the Nineteenth Century 197(24) Martin A. Klein Slavery and Pawnship in the Yoruba Economy of the Nineteenth Century 221(25) Toyin Falola Freedom and Salvery and the Shaping of Victorian Britain 246(14) James Walvin Notes on Contributors 260(2) Index 262
Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers
