Introduction : maritime slavery / Philip D. Morgan -- Mediterranean slavery, New World transformations : galley slaves in the Spanish Caribbean, 1578-1635 / David Wheat -- Enslaved pearl divers in the sixteenth century Caribbean/ Molly A. Warsh -- Facilitating the slave trade : company slaves at Cape Coast Castle, 1750-1807 / Ty M. Reese -- Eighteenth century 'prize negroes' : from Britain to America / Charles R. Foy -- Different slave journeys : enslaved African seamen on board of Portuguese ships, c. 1760-1820s / Mariana P. Candido -- Gorge : an African seaman and his flights from 'freedom' back to 'slavery' in the early nineteenth century / Walter Hawthorne -- Saltwater slavers and captives in the Sulu Zone, 1768-1878 / James Francis Warren -- Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c. 1840-1900 / Janet J. Ewald -- 'I espied a Chinaman' : Chinese sailors and the fracturing of the nineteenth century Pacific maritime labour force / John T. Grider