Global abolition processes in the wake of the Haitian Revolution, the end of the British slave trade, the rise of Spanish American anti-slavery republics, and the European Scramble for Africa depended upon new forms of coerced mobility, regimes of dependency, mobilizations of unfree labor, and conceptualizations of the ideal laborer across the Atlantic world. Contrary to notions of free trade and free labor, abolitionism generated monopolies and unfree labor systems, creating new hierarchies of unfreedom. At the same time, abolitionism was manifest in the use of machines to increase production and exploit an increasingly mobile and heterogeneous workforce. It manifested as agro-industrial wage, contract, indentured, and apprenticeship labor systems. It required building a market for labor regulated with wages and teaching former slavers to become employers. In the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Atlantic world, abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated, contested, and redefined. In West Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and Western Europe, diverse peoples put “abolitionist symbolism, rhetoric, and ideology” (Derek R. Peterson, ed., 2010:3) to their own uses. Laborers, recruiters, employers, and state bureaucracies generated conjunctive regimes of coercion in such ways that mobility and labor shaped abolitionism. A selection of Atlantic scholars examine these processes in two cross-conversational panels, and contribute to the important historiography of global abolitionism.