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Pawnship in Africa : debt bondage in historical perspective
- Title
- Pawnship in Africa : debt bondage in historical perspective / edited by Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy.
- Publication
- Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 341 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- African modernization and development series
- Subject
- Peonage > Africa > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pawnship in historical perspective / Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy -- Pawning and slavery on the Kenya coast : the Miji Kenda case / Fred Morton -- Pawning, politics and matriliny in northeastern Tanzania / James L. Giblin -- On pawning and enslavement for debt in the pre-colonial Slave Coast / Robin Law -- Pawnship in Nembe, Niger Delta / Ebiegberi J. Alagon and Atei M. Okorobia -- Pawnship in Igbo society / Felix K. Ekechi -- Pawnship in Edo society / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Human pawning in Asante, 1800-1950 / Gareth Austin -- Pawns, porters, and petty traders : women in the transition to cash crop agriculture in colonial Ghana / Beverly Grier -- Pawns and politics : the pawnship debate in western Nigeria / Judith Byfield -- Pawning in the Emirate of Ilorin / Ann O'Hear -- Pawnship in colonial southwestern Nigeria / Toyin Falola -- Pawning in coastal northwest Sierra Leone, 1870-1910 / Allen M. Howard -- Indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia, 1918-1930 / Martin Ford -- The resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the Depression of the 1930s / Martin A. Klein and Richard Roberts.
- Call Number
- Sc E 94-330
- ISBN
- 0813384575 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94005911
- OCLC
- 29911548
- NYPG94-B33155
- Title
- Pawnship in Africa : debt bondage in historical perspective / edited by Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy.
- Imprint
- Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
- Series
- African modernization and development series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Falola, Toyin.Lovejoy, Paul E.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 94-330