Jeff Fynn-Paul, PhD (2005), University of Toronto, is Lecturer of Economic and Social History at Leiden University. He has published several monographs and articles on urban history and slavery, focusing on late medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. Among other awards, he is recipient of the 2016 European History Quarterly Prize.Damian Alan Pargas, Ph.D. (2009), Leiden University, is Lecturer of Economic and Social History at Leiden University. He has published several monographs and articles on American Slavery in the nineteenth century. He is recipient and supervisor of the NWO Vidi project “Beacons of Freedom: Slave Refugees in North America, 1800-1860”.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction. Slaving Zones in Global History: The Evolution of a ConceptJeff Fynn-PaulPart I. Slaving Zones to the Dawn of the Modern Era2 “To Serve Them All the More”: Christian Slaveholders and Christian Slaves in AntiquityJennifer A. Glancy3 Christianities in Conflict: The Black Sea as a Genoese Slaving Zone in the Later Middle AgesHannah Barker4 Considerations About the Territorial Distribution of Slaves in the Romanian PrincipalitiesViorel Achim5 Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern PeriodsWilliam D. Phillips, Jr.6 Chasing ‘Caribs’: Defining Zones of Legal Indigenous Enslavement in the Circum-Caribbean, 1493–1542Erin StonePart II. Slaving Zones in Modern Times (18th Century-Present)7 How Useful is the Concept of Slaving Zones? Some Thoughts from the Experience of Dahomey and KongoJohn K. Thornton8 Some Thoughts Concerning the Effects of the European Slave Trade on the Dynamics of Slavery in Madagascar in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesRafaël Thiebaut9 “Hearing the Sound of the Flute from Zanzibar”: Migrating Communities and Slave Trade Routes in the Indian OceanBeatrice Nicolini10 Slave Protection and Resistance in Colonial Mauritius, 1829–1830Tyler YankPart III. Slaving Zones in a Post-Abolition World11 The Price You Pay: Choosing Family, Friends, and Familiarity Over Freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835–1863Jessica Roitman12 Black Bondspeople, White Masters and Mistresses, and the Americanization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lead DistrictJennifer Kirsten Stinson13 A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian WomenJulia Martinez14 “Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case”Alexis Jonathan MartigIndex