Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Introduction: Flight as Fight 1
5. 1. Runaways and Deserters in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire: The Examples of São Tomé Island, South Asia, and Southern Portugal 22
6. 2. Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1687 40
7. 3. Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627–1727 58
8. 4. Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth- Century Bengal 77
9. 5. “More of a Danger to the Colony Than the Enemy Himself ”: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715–1760) 96
10. 6. “Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795 115
11. 7. Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity, Desertion, and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire, 1650–1800 135
12. 8. Voting with Their Feet: Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia 156
13. 9. “He says that if he is not taught a trade, he will run away”: Recaptured Africans, Desertion, and Mobility in the British Caribbean, 1808–1828 178
14. 10. Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans 199
15. 11. Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1863 216
16. Selected References 235
17. Contributors 247
18. Illustration Credits 251
19. Index 253