Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world / edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Rediker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Marcus Rediker, Cassandra Pybus, and Emma Christopher -- The other middle passage : the African slave trade in the Indian Ocean / Edward A. Alpers -- The East African middle passage : David Livingstone, the Zambesi expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858-1866 / Iain McCalman -- The Iranun and Balangingi slaving voyage : middle passages in the Sulu zone / James Warren -- The voyage out : Peter Kolb and VOC voyages to the Cape / Nigel Penn -- Bound for Botany Bay : John Martin's voyage to Australia / Cassandra Pybus -- "The slave trade is merciful compared to [this]" : slave traders, convict transportation, and the abolitionists / Emma Christopher -- Convict passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790-1860 / Clare Anderson -- After slavery : forced drafts of Irish and Chinese labor in the American Civil War, or the search for liquid labor / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- La trata amarilla : the "yellow trade" and the middle passage, 1847-1884 / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- "A most irregular traffic": the oceanic passages of the Melanesian labor trade / Laurence Brown -- La traite des jaunes : trafficking in women and children across the China Sea / Julia Martínez -- Afterword: "All of it is now" / Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd -- Postscript: Gun-slave cycle / Marcus Rediker.

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This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, whi.

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