"The island of Bali in the East Indies (Indonesia) was a source of Hindu slaves for the Muslim world... India was also…"

"One Chinese reported that the people of Melaka "say that it is better to have slaves than to have land, because slave…"

"At Achim [Aceh] every one is for selling himself. Some of the chief lords have not less than a thousand slaves, all p…"

"There was no free wage labour to be had, except occasionally among either Chinese or other foreigners temporarily in …"

"Although indigenous conceptions of bondage did not include a sharp antithesis between the categories of slave and fre…"

"Similarly, the Malay population of the coastal low- lands of Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo gradually absorbed animist h…"

"South Asian slaves were significant at an earlier date in Inner Asia and Persia. The conquest of Sind in 712-13 yield…"

"The archbishop of Manila claimed in 1637 that Moro raiders from the south had seized an average of 10,000 Catholic Fi…"

"Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Muslims enslaved Hindus and Animists, and even fellow Muslims, from the thirteenth-centu…"

"There are no statistics on the overall number of slaves imported into Jolo in the period under consideration, except …"