Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
Financial History Series

This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.

Introduction - Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani 1 Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition - William G Clarence-Smith 2 Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa - Edward A Alpers 3 Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790-1861 - Gwyn Campbell 4 Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The Case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697-1735 - Susan Newton-King 5 Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants on Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century - Alessandro Stanziani 6 Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750-1898 - James Francis Warren 7 Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers - Matthew S Hopper 8 The Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India - Isabelle Guerin 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 - Michael Salman 10 Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southern China: The Coolie Trade and Emigration to Southeast Asia - Ei Murakami 11 Debt Slaves in Old Korea - Bok-rae Kim 12 The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan during the Edo Period, 1600-1868 - Yoko Matsui Notes Index

Gwyn Campbell (McGill University, Montreal), Alessandro Stanziani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)