Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

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Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

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Edited by Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, Alessandro Stanziani, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440186

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History

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In the area running from east Africa to China slavery has always played a significant role. Even today there are up to twenty-seven million people enslaved in some form of bonded labour. 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-20

1 - Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition
pp 21-30

2 - Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
pp 31-44

3 - Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790–1861
pp 45-56

4 - Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The Case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697–1735
pp 57-74

5 - Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants in Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century
pp 75-86

6 - Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750–1898
pp 87-102

7 - Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers
pp 103-118

8 - The Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India
pp 119-134

9 - 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
pp 135-152

10 - Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southern China: The Coolie Trade and Emigration to Southeast Asia
pp 153-164

11 - Debt Slaves in Old Korea
pp 165-172

12 - The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan during the Edo Period, 1600–1868
pp 173-186

Notes
pp 187-232

Index
pp 233-240

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