Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

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

• 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

'It brings together significant new information, and it generally succeeds in demonstrating that bonded labour and debt have been enduring historical themes whose role has not been sufficiently recognized and analysed within the existing historiography.' Journal of the Indian Ocean Region 'highly commendable and the overall results and level of expertise [are] by and large impressive.' Journal of African History