Maritime slavery is not just about the movement of people as commodities, but rather, the involvement of all sorts of people, including slaves, in the transportation of those human commodities. Maritime slavery is thus not only about objects being moved but also about subjects doing the moving. Maritime Slavery reflects this current interest in maritime spaces, and covers all the major Oceans and Seas.

1. Introduction: Maritime Slavery Philip D. Morgan Part I: Caribbean Sea 2. Mediterranean Slavery, New World Transformations: Galley Slaves in the Spanish Caribbean, 1578-1635 David Wheat 3. Enslaved Pearl Divers in the Sixteenth Century Caribbean Molly A. Warsh Part II: Atlantic Ocean 4. Facilitating the Slave Trade: Company Slaves at Cape Coast Castle, 1750-1807 Ty M. Reese 5. Eighteenth Century 'Prize Negroes': From Britain to America Charles R. Foy 6. Different Slave Journeys: Enslaved African Seamen on Board of Portuguese Ships, c.1760-1820s Mariana P. Candido 7. Gorge: An African Seaman and his Flights from 'Freedom' back to 'Slavery' in the Early Nineteenth Century Walter Hawthorne Part III: Indian and Pacific Oceans 8. Saltwater Slavers and Captives in the Sulu Zone, 1768-1878 James Francis Warren 9. Bondsmen, Freedmen, and Maritime Industrial Transportation, c.1840-1900 Janet J. Ewald 10. 'I Espied a Chinaman': Chinese Sailors and the Fracturing of the Nineteenth Century Pacific Maritime Labour Force John T. Grider