The labour 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 pre-colonial and colonial eras. 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; and the role of class, gender and age in pawnship.
- ISBN10 0813384575
- ISBN13 9780813384573
- Publish Date 16 June 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 341
- Language English