Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century Philippines
This article problematizes the work system known as debt peonage that developed throughout the Spanish-controlled territories of the Philippine islands, examining memorias and colonial sources to analyze practices of abuse that this system sustained during the 19th century. It illustrates the divers...
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| description | This article problematizes the work system known as debt peonage that developed throughout the Spanish-controlled territories of the Philippine islands, examining memorias and colonial sources to analyze practices of abuse that this system sustained during the 19th century. It illustrates the diversity of work experiences imposed on Indigenous peoples. Debt peonage involved a large part of colonial society and could result in a variety of situations, ranging from the imposition of excessive interest rates to what some scholars have considered slavery-like conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-501920925f144a938aeb318948580e1d2024-01-16T13:33:49ZdeuMax Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal TheoryRechtsgeschichte - Legal History1619-49932195-96172023-09-0131161172http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/rg31/161-172Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century PhilippinesCarolina Hiribarren Cardoen0Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de ChileThis article problematizes the work system known as debt peonage that developed throughout the Spanish-controlled territories of the Philippine islands, examining memorias and colonial sources to analyze practices of abuse that this system sustained during the 19th century. It illustrates the diversity of work experiences imposed on Indigenous peoples. Debt peonage involved a large part of colonial society and could result in a variety of situations, ranging from the imposition of excessive interest rates to what some scholars have considered slavery-like conditions.http://rg.rg.mpg.de/de/article_id/1598debt peonagedebt servitudefilipino slaveryabuse19th century |
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| title | Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century Philippines |
| title_full | Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century Philippines |
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| title_short | Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century Philippines |
| title_sort | abuse or slavery a look at practices of debt peonage from the 19th century philippines |
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