Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa,9781592210404

Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa

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ISBN13: 9781592210404
ISBN10: 1592210406
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Africa World Pr
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Summary

A collection of 20 essays that explore the,institution of debt bondage in Africa in which,individuals were held as collateral, usually by,members of the same family, in lieu of debts that,had been incurred. Also explores how the pressure,of the international slave trade, especially along,the West African coast, further shaped the,institution of pawnship and allowed the extension,of credit into the interior of West Africa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments iii
Table Of Contents
v
Pawnship In Historical Perspective
1(26)
Toyin Falola
Paul E. Lovejoy
The Business Of Slaving: Pawnship In Western Africa, C.1600-1810*
27(28)
Paul E. Lovejoy
David Richardson
On Pawning And Enslavement For Debt In The Precolonial Slave Coast
55(16)
Robin Law
``Paws Will Live When Slaves is Apt To Dye'': Credit, Risk And Trust At Old Calabar In The Era Of The Slave Trade*
71(26)
Paul E. Lovejoy
David Richardson
Pawnship In Nembe, Niger Delta
97(12)
Ebiegberi J. Alagoa
Atei M. Okorobia
Slavery And Pawnship In The Yoruba Economy Of The Nineteenth Century
109(28)
Toyin Falola
Pawning In The Emirate Of Ilorin
137(28)
Ann O'Hear
Pawnship In Igbo Society
165(22)
Felix Ekechi
Human Pawning in Asante, 1820-1950: Markets And Coercion, Gender And Cocoa
187(38)
Gareth Austin
Pawnship In Edo Society: From Benin Kingdom To Benin Province Under Colonial Rule
225(14)
Uyilawa Usuanlele
Pawning And Slavery On The Kenya Coast: The Miji Kenda Case
239(16)
Fred Morton
Pawning, Politics And Matriliny In Northeastern Tanzania
255(12)
James Giblin
Pawning In Coastal Northwest Sierra Leone, 1870-1910
267(16)
Allen M. Howard
Indirect Rule And The Brief Apogee Of Pawnship In Nimba, Liberia, 1918-30
283(16)
Martin Ford
Pawns, Porters, And Petty Traders: Women In The Transition To Cash-Crop Agriculture In Colonial Ghana
299(26)
Beverly Grier
Iwofa: An Historical Survey Of The Yoruba Institution Of Indenture*
325(32)
E. Adeniyi Oroge
Pawns And Politics: The Pawnship Debate In Western Nigeria
357(30)
Judith Byfield
Pawnship In Colonial Southwestern Nigeria
387(22)
Toyin Falola
The Resurgence Of Pawning In French West Africa During The Depression Of The 1930s
409(18)
Martin Klein
Richard Roberts
``What Is And What Is Not The Law:'' Imprisonment For Debt And The Institution Of Pawnship In The Gold Coast
427(22)
Kwabena Akurang-Parry
Bibliography 449(18)
Notes On Contributors 467(4)
Index 471

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