ISBN:
9781848933743
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (200 p)
Series Statement:
Financial HIST
Parallel Title:
Print version Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
DDC:
306.363091821
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Debt Bondage and Chattel Slavery in Early Rome; 2 Slavery, Debt and Bondage: The Mediterranean and the Eurasia Connection from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century; 3 Clientship, Social Indebtedness and State-Controlled Emancipation of Africans in the Late Ottoman Empire; 4 Pawnship and Seizure for Debt in the Process of Enslavement in West Africa; 5 The Business of 'Trust' and the Enslavement of Yoruba Women and Children for Debt
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The Africanization of the Workforce in English America7 Credit, Captives, Collateral and Currencies: Debt, Slavery and the Financing of the Atlantic World; 8 Unpayable Debts: Reinventing Bonded Labour through Legal Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; 9 Indigenous Debt and the Spirit of Colonial Capitalism: Debt, Taxes and the Cash-Crop Economy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1956; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
