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Part 1: Religion and the negotiation of belonging Chapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian Worlds Tamar Herzog, Harvard University Chapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa Ângela Barreto Xavier, University of Lisbon Chapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coast Alexander Geelen, International Institute of Social History Part 2: Slavery and legal status Chapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century) André Luís Ferreira, Federal University of Pará Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curaçao, 1730-1740 Stef Vink, Leiden University Chapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire – the example of the Cape and the Guianas Rafaël Thiebaut, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Part 3: Subjecthood and imperial states Chapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675 Timo McGregor, London School of Economics Chapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century Guadeloupe Tessa de Boer, Leiden University Part 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue durée perspective Chapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South Africa