This book brings together scholarship about regional histories of colonialism, slavery, and slave trade, including related forms of forced labour and relocation in the Indian Ocean region. This volume traces how colonial powers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century built, adapted, and expanded systems of slave trading and coerced labour across different regions of the globe. Bringing together diverse geographical perspectives and source materials, the contributors investigate how European practices of enslavement—shaped above all by experiences in the Atlantic world—were transferred to, or reshaped by, societies in the Indian Ocean and Asia. In examining the management of slaving routes and labour regimes, the authors combine state-of-the-art quantitative analysis with rich qualitative readings of archival and non-archival sources. The result is a fresh exploration of how colonial archives, when placed alongside other kinds of evidence, open new pathways to understanding the global dynamics of slavery and coerced labour. This volume traces how colonial powers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century built, adapted, and expanded systems of slave trading and coerced labour across different regions of the globe. Bringing together diverse geographical perspectives and source materials, the contributors investigate how European practices of enslavement—shaped above all by experiences in the Atlantic world—were transferred to, or reshaped by, societies in the Indian Ocean and Asia. In examining the management of slaving routes and labour regimes, the authors combine state-of-the-art quantitative analysis with rich qualitative readings of archival and non-archival sources. The result is a fresh exploration of how colonial archives, when placed alongside other kinds of evidence, open new pathways to understanding the global dynamics of slavery and coerced labour. Table of Contents; 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