Introduction. Enslaved Worlds: Colonial Encounters and Coercion in Early Modern Asia - Daniel Domingues da Silva, Hans Hägerdal, Angelina Kalashnikova and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva;
Chapter 1. Trafficking of Women in 17th-Century Siberia: A Yakutsk Region Case Study - Angelina Kalashnikova;
Chapter 2. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Use of Non-free Labour, Especially of the So-called Companies Lijfeijgenen (Company Slaves) in Sri Lanka around 1681 - Lodewijk Wagenaar;
Chapter 3. Coolies of Shimla: From British Raj and Pre-colonial Baegar (Indentured) Laws to Modern Slavery -Priya Kapoor;
Chapter 4. Slavery in the Shadow of the Plantations: Colonial and Indigenous Slaving in Early-Modern Maluku - Hans Hägerdal;
Chapter 5 - The Case of the Collector: Michael Hogan's Illicit Slave Trade at the Cape of Good Hope in 1800 - Michael C. Reidy;
Chapter 6. Reconstructing Iberian Involvement in the Commerce in Peoples around Maritime Asia: Between Challenges and Future Possibilities - Filipa Ribeiro da Silva;
Chapter 7. Revisiting Indian Ocean History in the Face of the Digital Turn - Manjusha Kuruppath, Matthias van Rossum, and Mrinalini Luthra;
Chapter 8. Integrating the Indian Ocean and Asian Slave Trades into Global History: Creating Trans-Regional Databases - Daniel Domingues da Silva, Jane Hooper, and Matthew Hopper;
Chapter 9. Identifying and Linking Names, Legal Statuses, and Punishments of The Dutch East India Company Convicts in Early Modern Batavia Using Supervised Named Entity Recognition (NER) - Muhammad Asyrafi and Fathiyarizq Mahendra Putra;
Chapter 10. Scratching the Surface, Shifting the Tides: Initial Findings and Future Directions of the ESTA Slave Trade Database - Pascal Konings, Merve Tosun, and Matthias van Rossum;
Afterword. Reflections on Reconstructing Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Modern and Colonial Asia - Richard B. Allen.
