Book of Donmon Teith

Exploring the age-old institution of African debt,bondage, in which people are held as collateral in,lieu of debts that have been incurred, these,twenty essays

Pawnship, a legal category of social and economic dependency, has been largely neglected in the historiography of Africa. Yet the labor of pawns - freeborn wome

This book brings together a series of new case studies, some by young scholars, others by widely published authors. All are based on original research and desig

This book integrates into a single framework Dahomey's pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history.

Fifty million people between the 15th adn 19th centuries were forced into slavery by forced migration.