Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592210392 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 486 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and currently the director of the Harriet Tubman Resource Center on the African Diaspora. He previously taught at Awolowo University in Nigeria and has held fellowships and visiting professorships at Cambridge University, Smith College, and York University. He is editor of two series, Studies in African History and Diaspora (Rochester) and Classic Authors and Texts on Africa (AWP). He is co-editor of African Economic History. He won the Prix Wallace K. Ferguson of the Canadian Historical Association in 1994 for his book Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936. . Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University, Toronto and holds the Canada Research Chair in African diaspora history.
These essays also explore 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. The volume includes studies of pawnship along the West African coast, in Igboland, the Niger Delta, the Kingdom of Benin, Yorubaland, Asante and the Gold Coast, East Africa, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and the western Sudan.. The twenty essays in this volume 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. Far from ending the practice of pawnship, European colonial rule set in moti
. Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and has published more than forty-five books. Paul E. Ferguson of the Canadian Historical Association in 1994 for his book Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936. He previo