Pawnship in Africa
debt bondage in historical perspective
by Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy
Pawnship, a legal category of social and economic dependency, has been largely neglected in the historiography of Africa. Yet the labor 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 precolonial and colonial eras and a substitute for slave labor in the twentieth century.
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; the role of class, gender, and age; changes under colonial rule; and the decline and extinction of pawnship.
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Pawnship in Africa: debt bondage in historical perspective
1994, Westview Press
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Pawnship in Africa: Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective (African Modernization and Development Series)
September 1994, Westview Press
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