Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; Terminology; The Book's Structure; Chapter 1; The Chinese Stage; The First Portuguese in Southeast Asia and China; The Portuguese Adventurers and the First Chinese Slaves; Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence; Examples from the Chinese Diaspora; Chapter 2; The Japanese Stage; The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao; Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves; Chapter 3; The Korean Stage
The Macao Ship and Korean SlavesEuropean Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi; Korean Captives in Japan; Forced Migration and Famine and the Slave Trade Peak in Nagasaki; The Korean Community in Nagasaki and Catholicism; The Dominican Order; The Society of Jesus; The Franciscan Order; Some Examples of Korean Diaspora outside Japan; Chapter 4; Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade; The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the "Nau De Macau" and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600-14)
The Ship and Its TonnageThe Society of Jesus and the Ballot System; The Beginning of the Ballot-Paper System; Ballot Papers' Issuing Location; The Examination; The Content of the Ballot; Perpetual Ballots; Limited-Time Ballots/Time Bondage; Price and Number of Slaves; Slave Prices; Estimates of the Number of Slaves Carried from Japan; Chapter 6; Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas; The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos; The First Female Chinese Slave in Europe; Diaz's Imprisonment and Escape; Epilogue; The Japanese Slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos
