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Debt and slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds /

1781440166

1848933746

9781781440162

9781848933743

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Debt and slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds /

[Book]

edited by Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani

xiv, 185 pages ;

24 cm

Financial history ;

no. 22

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- 1. Debt Bondage and Chattel Slavery in Early Rome -- 2. Slavery Debt and Bondage -- 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 -- 6. The Africanization of the Workforce in English America -- 7. 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

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"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."--Provided by publisher

Peonage-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History

Peonage-- Mediterranean Region-- History

Slavery-- Economic aspects-- History

Campbell, Gwyn,1952-

Stanziani, Alessandro

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