| Description |
vi, 480 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-465) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Pawnship in historical perspective / by Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy -- The business of slaving : pawnship in Western Africa, c. 1600-1810 / by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- On pawning and enslavement for debt in the precolonial Slave Coast / by Robin Law -- "Pawns will live when slaves is apt to dye" : credit, risk and trust at old Calabar in the era of the slave trade / by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Pawnship in Nembe, Niger Delta / by Ebiegberi J. Alagoa and Atei M. Okorobia -- Slavery and pawnship in the Yoruba economy of the nineteenth century / by Toyin Falola -- Pawning in the Emirate of Ilorin / by Ann O'Hear -- Pawnship in Igbo society / by Felix Ekechi -- Human pawning in Asante, 1820-1950 : markets and coercion, gender and cocoa / by Gareth Austin -- Pawning among the Edo : from Benin Kingdom to Benin Province under colonialism / by Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Pawning and slavery on the Kenya coast : the Miji Kenda case / by Fred Morton -- Pawning, politics and matriliny in Northeastern Tanzania / by James Giblin -- Pawning in coastal Northwest Sierra Leone, 1897-1910 / by Allen M. Howard -- Indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia, 1918-30 / by Martin Ford -- Pawns, porters, and petty traders : women in the transition to cash-crop agriculture in colonial Ghana / by Beverly Grier -- Iwofa : an historical survey of the Yoruba institution of indenture / by E. Adeniyi Oroge -- Pawns and politics : the pawnship debate in Western nigeria / by Judith Byfield -- Pawnship in colonial Southwestern Nigeria / by Toyin Falola -- The resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the depression of the 1930s / by Martin Klein and Richard Roberts -- "What is and what is not the law" : imprisonment for debt and the institution of pawnship in the Gold Coast, 1821-1899 / by Kwabena Akurang-Parry. |
| Subject |
Peonage -- Africa -- History.
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Peonage. |
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Africa. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- Africa -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Africa -- Colonization -- History.
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Colonization. |
| Added Author |
Lovejoy, Paul E.
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Falola, Toyin.
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| ISBN |
1592210406 paperback |
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1592210392 |
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