Indentured labor migration has shaped lives and labor regimes across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. In the process, indenture has also played a crucial role in shaping historically contingent categories of labor contracts; slavery and the forced labor practices that proliferated alongside abolition; the making of modern migration regimes; political imaginaries and definitions of sovereignty; and in contestations over imperial rights and anticolonial demands. This roundtable will consider past approaches to indenture, including debates over the extent to which indenture resembled or differed from slavery. Then, the roundtable will probe new approaches to the study of indenture and its wider historical legacies with the aim of building connections across chronological, imperial, and regional boundaries. Collectively, our panelists’ work spans the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, the British and French empires, and geographic contexts including Britain, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and South Asia. Speaking about and beyond their work as individual scholars, panelists will engage broader questions about the entanglements of indenture with colonization, the history of emancipation, the making of modern migration regimes, the emergence of anticolonialism, and the effects of nationalism on the experience and politics of labor migration. Finally, the roundtable will explore how different modes of historical inquiry—social, cultural, economic, feminist, and legal—are currently brought to bear on the study of indenture, and how such approaches might better inform one another.