Introduction: Modern European expansion and traditional servitude in Africa and Asia / Martin A. Klein -- Ottoman concepts of slavery in the period of reform, 1830s-1880s / Ehud R. Toledano -- The decline of slavery in nineteenth-century Indonesia / Anthony Reid -- The demise of corvée and slavery in Thailand, 1782-1913 / David Feeny -- Colonialism, bondage, and caste in British India / Dharma Kumar -- Terms of servitude: The colonial discourse on slavery and bondage in India