ISBN:
1592210392
,
1592210406
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 480 S
,
24 cm
Edition:
first printing
DDC:
306.3/62/096
Keywords:
Peonage History
;
Slavery History
;
Africa Colonization
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Kolonisation
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Peonage
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Sklaverei
;
Leibeigenschaft
;
Schuldknechtschaft
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte 1600-1930
Abstract:
Pawnship in historical perspective / by Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy -- The business of slaving : pawnship in Western Africa, c. 1600-1810 / by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- On pawning and enslavement for debt in the precolonial Slave Coast / by Robin Law -- "Pawns will live when slaves is apt to dye" : credit, risk and trust at old Calabar in the era of the slave trade / by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Pawnship in Nembe, Niger Delta / by Ebiegberi J. Alagoa and Atei M. Okorobia -- Slavery and pawnship in the Yoruba economy of the nineteenth century / by Toyin Falola -- Pawning in the Emirate of Ilorin / by Ann O'Hear -- Pawnship in Igbo society / by Felix Ekechi -- Human pawning in Asante, 1820-1950 : markets and coercion, gender and cocoa / by Gareth Austin -- Pawnship in Edo society : from Benin Kingdom to Benin Province under colonial rule / by Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Pawning and slavery on the Kenya coast : the Miji Kenda case / by Fred Morton -- Pawning, politics and matriliny in Northeastern Tanzania / by James Giblin -- Pawning in coastal Northwest Sierra Leone, 1870-1910 / by Allen M. Howard -- Indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia, 1918-30 / by Martin Ford -- Pawns, porters, and petty traders : women in the transition to cash-crop agriculture in colonial Ghana / by Beverly Grier -- Iwofa : an historical survey of the Yoruba institution of indenture / by E. Adeniyi Oroge -- Pawns and politics : the pawnship debate in Western Nigeria / by Judith Byfield -- Pawnship in colonial Southwestern Nigeria / by Toyin Falola -- The resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the depression of the 1930s / by Martin Klein and Richard Roberts -- "What is and what is not the law" : imprisonment for debt and the institution of pawnship in the Gold Coast / by Kwabena Akurang-Parry
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Pawnship in historical perspective / by Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy -- The business of slaving : pawnship in Western Africa, c. 1600-1810 / by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- On pawning and enslavement for debt in the precolonial Slave Coast / by Robin Law -- "Pawns will live when slaves is apt to dye" : credit, risk and trust at old Calabar in the era of the slave trade / by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Pawnship in Nembe, Niger Delta / by Ebiegberi J. Alagoa and Atei M. Okorobia -- Slavery and pawnship in the Yoruba economy of the nineteenth century / by Toyin Falola -- Pawning in the Emirate of Ilorin / by Ann O'Hear -- Pawnship in Igbo society / by Felix Ekechi -- Human pawning in Asante, 1820-1950 : markets and coercion, gender and cocoa / by Gareth Austin -- Pawning among the Edo : from Benin Kingdom to Benin Province under colonialism / by Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Pawning and slavery on the Kenya coast : the Miji Kenda case / by Fred Morton -- Pawning, politics and matriliny in Northeastern Tanzania / by James Giblin -- Pawning in coastal Northwest Sierra Leone, 1897-1910 / by Allen M. Howard -- Indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia, 1918-30 / by Martin Ford -- Pawns, porters, and petty traders : women in the transition to cash-crop agriculture in colonial Ghana / by Beverly Grier -- Iwofa : an historical survey of the Yoruba institution of indenture / by E. Adeniyi Oroge -- Pawns and politics : the pawnship debate in Western nigeria / by Judith Byfield -- Pawnship in colonial Southwestern Nigeria / by Toyin Falola -- The resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the depression of the 1930s / by Martin Klein and Richard Roberts -- "What is and what is not the law" : imprisonment for debt and the institution of pawnship in the Gold Coast, 1821-1899 / by Kwabena Akurang-Parry
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Pawnship in historical perspective
,
The business of slaving : pawnship in Western Africa, c. 1600-1810
,
On pawning and enslavement for debt in the precolonial Slave Coast
,
"Pawns will live when slaves is apt to dye" : credit, risk and trust at old Calabar in the era of the slave trade
,
Pawnship in Nembe, Niger Delta
,
Slavery and pawnship in the Yoruba economy of the nineteenth century
,
Pawning in the Emirate of Ilorin
,
Pawnship in Igbo society
,
Human pawning in Asante, 1820-1950 : markets and coercion, gender and cocoa
,
Pawnship in Edo society : from Benin Kingdom to Benin Province under colonial rule
,
Pawning and slavery on the Kenya coast : the Miji Kenda case
,
Pawning, politics and matriliny in Northeastern Tanzania
,
Pawning in coastal Northwest Sierra Leone, 1870-1910
,
Indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia, 1918-30
,
Pawns, porters, and petty traders : women in the transition to cash-crop agriculture in colonial Ghana
,
Iwofa : an historical survey of the Yoruba institution of indenture
,
Pawns and politics : the pawnship debate in Western Nigeria
,
Pawnship in colonial Southwestern Nigeria
,
The resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the depression of the 1930s
,
"What is and what is not the law" : imprisonment for debt and the institution of pawnship in the Gold Coast
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