Laura Murphy is Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery at Sheffield Hallam University's Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice. She is also the author of Freedomville: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt, The New Slave Narrative: The Battle over Representations of Contemporary Slavery, and Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and the British Academy.

• Introduction Laura Murphy; Part I. Contexts and Contestation: 1. Genres of Slavery and Human Rights Alexandra S. Moore; 2. Humanitarian Attachments: Contemporary Anti-Slavery and Anti-Trafficking Discourses Wendy Hesford; Part II: Forms and Figures: 3. Speculative African Slaveries Matthew Omelsky; 4. Marginalization and Servitude in Ghanaian Digital Spaces Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang; 5. Enslavement and Forced Marriage in Uyghur Literature David Brophy; 6. Transactional Domesticity in the Qing Domestic Novel Johanna Ransmeier; 7. The Language of Slavery in the Mongolian Literary Tradition Samuel Bass; Part III. Legacies And Afterlives: 8. Slavery and the Virtual Archive: On Iran's Dāsh Ākul Parisa Vaziri; 9. Impossible Revolutions? The Contemporary Afterlives of the Medieval Slave Rebellion of the Zendj Martino Lovato; 10. Slavery and Indenture in the Literatures of the Indian Ocean World Nienke Boer; 11. Rehearsing the Past: The Terrestrial Middle Passage in Uwem Akpan's 'Fattening for Gabon' Supriya Nair; Part IV. Metaphors and Migrations: 12. Itineraries of Arabic across Oceans and Continents: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Muslim Slave Writing in the Americas Jason Frydman; 13. Apartheid's Ghosts: Slavery in the Literary Imagination Kirk Sides; 14. African Boat Narratives, Disposable Bodies, and the New Native Survivor Subha Xavier; 15. Mediterranean Afterlives of Slavery: Refugees and the Politics of Saving Ewa Macura-Nnamdi; Further Reading; Index.