Introduction: Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / Robert Harms
Part I. The Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth century
Servitude and the changing face of demand for labor in the Indian Ocean world, c. 1800-1900 / Gwyn Campbell
On becoming a British lake: piracy, slaving, and British imperialism in the Indian Ocean during the first half of the nineteenth century / Edward A. Alpers
Part II. Slavery, abolition, and Islamic law
Straight, no chaser: slavery, abolition, and modern Islamic thought / Bernard K. Freamon
Islamic abolitionism in the western Indian Ocean from c. 1800 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Part III. Fighting the maritime slave trade
"The flag that sets us free": antislavery, Africans, and the Royal Navy in the western Indian Ocean / Lindsay Doulton
"If you catch me again at it, put me to death": slave trading, paper trails, and British bureaucracy in the Indian Ocean / Mandana E. Limbert
Part IV. Economic and social mobility of slaves
Social mobility in Indian Ocean slavery: the strange career of Sultan Bin Aman / Abdul Sheriff
Deeds of freed slaves: manumission and economic and social mobility in pre-abolition Zanzibar / Thomas F. Mcdow
Part V. The changing face of slavery
Slave trading, abolitionism, and "new systems of slavery" in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world / Richard B. Allen
African bondsmen, freedmen, and the maritime proletariats of the northwestern Indian Ocean world, c. 1500-1900 / Janet J. Ewald
Slaves of one master: globalization and the African diaspora in Arabia in the age of empire / Matthew S. Hopper.