This is the eighth volume of the series The Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour. It covers the post slavery period of the long nine­teenth century and its continuities into much of the first half of the twentieth century. From a geopolitical perspective, the essays collect­ively encompass the Francophone territories in the Indian Ocean, as well as the Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean and Latin America.

Within almost each essay, a myriad of multidimensional issues is foregrounded. To the credit of the authors, these matters are well sup­ported by the historical...