Pawnship in Africa : debt bondage in historical perspective
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Pawnship in Africa : debt bondage in historical perspective
（African modernization and development）
Westview Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The labour of pawns - freeborn women, men and children indentured in payment of interest on a debt - was an important supplement to that of slaves in the pre-colonial and colonial eras. This book examines the origins of pawnship; the economic factors that contributed to its spread; the ideological and institutional framework that supported pawnship; its organization; the experience of pawns; and the role of class, gender and age in pawnship.
Table of Contents
- Pawnship in Africa, Paul E. Lovejoy and Toyin Falola
- pawnship in the Niger Delta, E.J. Alagoa
- the resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the Depression of the 1930s, Richard Roberts and Martin Klein
- indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia - 1918-1930, Martin Ford
- pawnship, economy, and the state in Abeokuta - 1920-1940, Judith Byfield
- pawning and enslavement for debt in the pre-colonial slave coast, Robin Law
- pawning in Ilorin, Ann O'Hear
- pawnship in colonial southwestern Nigeria, T. Falola
- pawnship in the Swahili hinterland, James Giblin and Fred Morton
- pawnship in Igbo society, Felix Ekechi
- pawning in the history of Benin, Uyilawa Usuanlele.
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