Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition
- 2 Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
- 3 Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790–1861
- 4 Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The Case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697–1735
- 5 Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants in Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century
- 6 Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750–1898
- 7 Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers
- 8 The Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India
- 9 The Name of the Slave and the Quality of the Debt: When Slaves Are Not Debtors and Debtors Are Not Slaves in the Family Narrative of a Filipina Comfort Woman
- 10 Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southern China: The Coolie Trade and Emigration to Southeast Asia
- 11 Debt Slaves in Old Korea
- 12 The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan during the Edo Period, 1600–1868
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition
- 2 Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
- 3 Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790–1861
- 4 Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The Case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697–1735
- 5 Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants in Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century
- 6 Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750–1898
- 7 Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers
- 8 The Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India
- 9 The Name of the Slave and the Quality of the Debt: When Slaves Are Not Debtors and Debtors Are Not Slaves in the Family Narrative of a Filipina Comfort Woman
- 10 Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southern China: The Coolie Trade and Emigration to Southeast Asia
- 11 Debt Slaves in Old Korea
- 12 The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan during the Edo Period, 1600–1868
- Notes
- Index
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- Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World , pp. 187 - 232Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014