Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada. He is also Editor of the Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies. His publications include Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900 (2019) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005). Alessandro Stanziani is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. His monographs include Labor on the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law (Palgrave, 2018) and Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History (Palgrave, 2018).

Illuminates the complex relationships between the economic, political, social, and environmental factors that have produced historical and contemporary forms of bondage and human trafficking in Africa and Asia

Features structural analysis of historical and contemporary forms of bondage in Africa and Asia

Offers a major corrective to Eurocentric conceptions of human bondage and suggests new directions for research and policy-making

1. Introduction.- 2. The Domestic Outsider: Interpreting Contradictions in the Status of Maidservants in Qing China.- 3. The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China.- 4. Labour Migration to the French Islands of the Western Indian Ocean, 1830-60.- 5. Relationships between Economic and Environmental Factors, and Labour Migration to Réunion, 1820-60.- 6. Trafficking, Slavery, Peonage: Dilemmas and Hesitations of Colonial Administrators in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.- 7. Disciplining the Hill Tribes into Coolie Labour for Road Construction.- 8. Mediated (Im)mobility: Indian Labour Migration to Ceylon under the Kangany System (c. 1850-1940).- 9. Anti-indenture as Antislavery: Early Indian Nationalism and the Trope of Slavery.- 10. Changing Masters in the Longue Durée: Slavery and Abolition in Egypt and the Sudan, 1798-1882.- 11. Abolitionism and the African Slave Trade in the OttomanEmpire (1857-1922).- 12. The Abolition of Slavery and the 'New Labour Contract' in French Equatorial Africa, 1890-1914.- 13. The Persistence of Slavery in the Southern Red Sea Region in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- 14. Sex, Money, and Modern-Day Slavery: Trafficking of Women and Children in China.- 15. Rural Women as Property in Zambia: The AIDS Exit.- 16. Child Labour and its Interaction with Adult Labour in Ivory Coast (1980-2002).- 17. Trauma and Inter-Communal Relations among a Captive Population: Preliminary Findings from the Malakal PoC, South Sudan.- 18. The Persistence of Debt Bondage in South India: Market and Political Alliances.- 19. Debt Bondage and Vulnerable Work in South Indian Silk Processing.- 20. Indebted to Work: Bondage in Brick Kilns.