Presents a perspective on the history of forced migration over 3 centuries and illuminates the centrality of movements of people in making of this world. This book traces the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.

List of Maps Introduction Marcus Rediker, Cassandra Pybus, and Emma Christopher 1. The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean Edward A. Alpers 2. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858--1866 Iain McCalman 3. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone James Warren 4. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and VOC Voyages to the Cape Nigel Penn 5. Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin's Voyage to Australia Cassandra Pybus 6. "The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]": Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists Emma Christopher 7. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790--1860 Clare Anderson 8. After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor Scott Reynolds Nelson 9. La Trata Amarilla: The "Yellow Trade" and the Middle Passage, 1847--1884 Evelyn Hu-DeHart 10. "A Most Irregular Traffic": The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade Laurence Brown 11. La Traite des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea Julia Martinez Afterword: "All of It Is Now" Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd Postscript: Gun-Slave Cycle Marcus Rediker Appendix Index

"Extends the concept of the Middle Passage to encompass the expropriation of people across other maritime and inland routes. No previous book has highlighted the diversity and centrality of middle passages, voluntary and involuntary, to modern global history."—Kenneth Morgan, author of Slavery and the British Empire

"This volume extends the now well-established project of 'Atlantic World Studies' beyond its geographic and chronological frames to a genuinely global analysis of labour migration. It is a work of major importance that sparkles with new discoveries and insights."—Rick Halpern, co-editor of Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850