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Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

ABSTRACT

This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition

chapter 2|14 pages

Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

chapter 3|12 pages

Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790–1861

chapter 4|18 pages

Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The Case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697–1735

chapter 5|12 pages

Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants in Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century

chapter 6|16 pages

Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750–1898

chapter 7|16 pages

Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers

chapter 8|16 pages

The Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India

chapter 9|18 pages

The Name of the Slave and the Quality of the Debt: When Slaves Are Not Debtors and Debtors Are Not Slaves in the Family Narrative of A Filipina Comfort Woman

chapter 10|12 pages

Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southern China: The Coolie Trade and Emigration to Southeast Asia

chapter 11|8 pages

Debt Slaves in Old Korea

chapter 12|14 pages

The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan During the Edo Period, 1600–1868

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World