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Taylor & Francis Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds 2015 Edition by Alessandro Stanziani
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. Table of contents :- Introduction - Alessandro Stanziani and Gwyn Campbell 1 Debt Bondage and Chattel Slavery in Early Rome - Marc Kleijwegt 2 Slavery, Debt and Bondage: The Mediterranean and the Eurasia Connection, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century - Alessandro Stanziani 3 Clientship, Social Indebtedness and State-Controlled Emancipation of Africans in the Late Ottoman Empire - Michael Ferguson 4 Pawnship and Seizure for Debt during the Era of the Slave Trade - Paul E Lovejoy 5 The Business of 'Trust' and the Enslavement of Yoruba Women and Children for Debt - Olatunji Ojo 6 The Africanization of the Workforce in English America - Russell R Menard 7 Credit, Captives, Collateral and Currencies: Debt, Slavery, and the Financing of the Atlantic World - Joseph C Miller 8 Unpayable Debts: Reinventing Bonded Labour through Legal Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil - Henrique Espada Lima 9 Indigenous Debt and the Spirit of Colonial Capitalism: Debt, Taxes and the Cash-Crop Economy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1956 - Steven Serels