Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Introduction 1
6. One. The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean 20
7. Two. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858–1866 39
8. Three. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone 52
9. Four. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and VOC Voyages to the Cape 72
10. Five Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin’s Voyage to Australia 92
11. Six. “The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]”: Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists 109
12. Seven. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790–1860 129
13. Eight. After Slavery Forced: Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American CivilWar, or the Search for Liquid Labor 150
14. Nine. La Trata Amarilla: The “Yellow Trade” and the Middle Passage, 1847–1884 166
15. Ten. “A Most Irregular Traffic”: The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade 184
16. Eleven. La Traite des Jaunes: Trafficking inWomen and Children across the China Sea 204
17. Afterword: “All of It Is Now” 222
18. Postscript: The Gun-Slave Cycle 235
19. Appendix 237
20. Contributors 245
21. Index 249