The book’s conclusion asserts that the overseer-state, in terms of both labor governance and responses to it, was one of the most important “legacies of slavery.” The effects of the indenture system were particularly profound and widespread, most visibly in the social, political, and cultural dynamics of multiracial (but highly unequal) societies in Mauritius, the British Caribbean, and Malaya, and in the establishment of long-range, long-term labor mobility as the norm in a globalized system of labor transportation and organization. Through the overseer-state, the long-term impact of slavery and its aftermath were felt acutely even in places such as Malaysia, where plantation slavery had never been a prevalent practice. In the regions where the British imperial state was most powerful, the dynamics of governance and the history of slavery remained entangled well beyond the centenary of the slave trade’s abolition.