This part investigates the causes and consequences of the role of slavery and other forms of property in people in the nineteenth-century Asante economy. Chapter 8 examines the standard economic explanation of slavery against qualitative and quantitative evidence for Asante. It argues that such property claims, founded on coercion, reduced the supply price of labour and thereby made possible a much higher level of economic activity than would have been possible otherwise. Important as they were, we have seen that slavery, pawning and corvée were not the only sets of extra-economic relations to structure economic activity. The significance of the gender division of labour, and the primacy of the conjugal family unit over the otherwise socially-pervasive matrilineage, are discussed in Chapter 9. The opportunities that the pattern of property rights and markets in factors of production offered for individual careers of accumulation are explored in Chapter 10. It goes on to consider the implications for the welfare of the various parties involved, and issues of consent and resistance. In this context we ask whether, or how far, slavery and pawnship were instruments of social integration, underpinned by paternalistic ideologies, as well as means of extracting economic rent.