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" Debt and slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds / "
edited by Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani
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BL
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648046
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Debt and slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds /\ edited by Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani
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| Series Statement
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Financial history ;; no. 22
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xiv, 185 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781781440162
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: 1781440166
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: 9781848933743
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: 1848933746
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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Peonage-- Mediterranean Region-- History
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Peonage-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History
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Slavery-- Economic aspects-- History
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306.363091821
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HD4871.D43 2013
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Campbell, Gwyn,1952-
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Stanziani, Alessandro
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