1. Dependence, servility and coerced labor in time and space David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman; Part I. Slavery in Africa and Asia Minor: 2. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern era Ehud R. Toledano; 3. Slavery in Islamic Africa Rudolph T. Ware III; 4. Slavery in non-Islamic West Africa, 1420-1820 G. Ugo Nwokeji; 5. Slaving and resistance to slaving in west central Africa Roquinaldo Ferreira; 6. White slavery in the early modern era William G. Clarence-Smith and David Eltis; Part II. Slavery in Asia: 7. Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420-1804 Kerry Ward; 8. Slavery in early modern China Pamela Kyle Crossley; Part III. Slavery among the Indigenous Americans: 9. Slavery in indigenous North America Leland Donald; 10. Indigenous slavery in South America, 1492-1820 Neil L. Whitehead; Part IV. Slavery and Serfdom in Eastern Europe: 11. Slavery and the rise of serfdom in Russia Richard Hellie; 12. Manorialism and rural subjection in east central Europe, 1500-1800 Edgar Melton; Part V. Slavery in the Americas: 13. Slavery in the Atlantic islands and the early modern Spanish Atlantic world William D. Phillips, Jr; 14. Slavery and politics in colonial Portuguese America: the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries João Fragoso and Ana Rios; 15. Slavery in the British Caribbean Philip D. Morgan; 16. Slavery on the colonial North American mainland Lorena S. Walsh; 17. Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635-1804 Laurent Dubois; 18. Slavery and the slave trade of the minor Atlantic powers Pieter Emmer; Part VI. Cultural and Demographic Patterns in the Americas: 19. Demography and family structures B. W. Higman; 20. The concept of creolization Richard Price; 21. Black women in the early Americas Betty Wood; Part VII. Legal Structures, Economics and the Movement of Coerced Peoples in the Atlantic World: 22. Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800 David Richardson; 23. Slavery, freedom and the law in the Atlantic world, 1420-1807 Sue Peabody; [...]opean forced labor in the early modern era Timothy Coates; 25. Transatlantic slavery and economic development in the Atlantic world: West Africa, 1450-1850 Joseph E. Inikori; Part VIII. Slavery and Resistance: 26. Slave worker rebellions and revolution in the Americas to 1804 Mary Turner; 27. Runaways and quilombolas in the Americas Manolo Florentino and Márcia Amantino.