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&#160;Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, vol. 1Slavery casts a long shadow over human history. Though, historically, the chief mechanism of slavery was seen as violent abduction, this view is being adjusted to recognize the importance of financial indebtedness in creating and sustaining human bondage. Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today.Introduction – Alessandro Stanziani and Gwyn Campbell1 Debt Bondage and Chattel Slavery in Early Rome – Marc Kleijwegt2 Slavery, Debt and Bondage: The Mediterranean and the Eurasia Connection, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century – Alessandro Stanziani3 Clientship, Social Indebtedness and State-Controlled Emancipation of Africans in the Late Ottoman Empire – Michael Ferguson4 Pawnship and Seizure for Debt during the Era of the Slave Trade – Paul E Lovejoy5 The Business of ‘Trust’ and the Enslavement of Yoruba Women and Children for Debt – Olatunji Ojo6 The Africanization of the Workforce in English America – Russell R Menard7 Credit, Captives, Collateral and Currencies: Debt, Slavery, and the Financing of the Atlantic World – Joseph C Miller8 Unpayable Debts: Reinventing Bonded Labour through Legal Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil – Henrique Espada Lima9 Indigenous Debt and the Spirit of Colonial Capitalism: Debt, Taxes and the Cash-Crop Economy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1956 – Steven SerelsBonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean Worl, vol. 2In the area running from East Africa to China slavery has always played a significant role. Even today there are up to twenty-two million people enslaved in some forms of bonded labour. 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 Stanziani1 Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition – William G Clarence-Smith2 Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa – Edward A Alpers3 Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790–1861 – Gwyn Campbell4 Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The Case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697–1735 – Susan Newton-King5 Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants on Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century – Alessandro Stanziani6 Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750–1898 – James Francis Warren7 Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers – Matthew S Hopper8 The Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India – Isabelle Guérin9 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 Salman10 Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Southern China: The Coolie Trade and Emigration to Southeast Asia – Ei Murakami11 Debt Slaves in Old Korea – Bok-rae Kim12 The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan during the Edo Period, 1600–1868 – Yoko MatsuiNotesIndex&#160;