Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds

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Slavery casts a long shadow over human history. Though, historically, the chief mechanism of slavery was seen as violent abduction, this view is being adjusted to recognize the importance of financial indebtedness in creating and sustaining human bondage. 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-28

1 - Debt Bondage and Chattel Slavery in Early Rome
pp 29-38

2 - Slavery, Debt and Bondage: The Mediterranean and the Eurasia Connection from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
pp 39-48

3 - Clientship, Social Indebtedness and State-Controlled Emancipation of Africans in the Late Ottoman Empire
pp 49-62

4 - Pawnship and Seizure for Debt in the Process of Enslavement in West Africa
pp 63-76

5 - The Business of ‘Trust’ and the Enslavement of Yoruba Women and Children for Debt
pp 77-92

6 - The Africanization of the Workforce in English America
pp 93-104

7 - Credit, Captives, Collateral and Currencies: Debt, Slavery and the Financing of the Atlantic World
pp 105-122

8 - Unpayable Debts: Reinventing Bonded Labour through Legal Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
pp 123-132

9 - Indigenous Debt and the Spirit of Colonial Capitalism: Debt, Taxes and the Cash-Crop Economy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1956
pp 133-142

Notes
pp 143-178

Index
pp 179-185

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