S. 10. 4.– Coercive Seas – Revisiting Early Modern Coerced Mobilities in Asia and the Pacific

Chair: Lisa Hellman (Lund University)

• Hans Hägerdal (Linnaeus University) – A slave economy in the East Indies: Seaborne transportation of slaves to the Banda Islands
• James Fujitani (Azusa Pacific University) – Free and Unfree Labor in Portuguese Shipping on the China Seas
• Rafaël Thiebaut (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) – The middle passage in the European slave trade on Madagascar (17th-18th centuries)