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Waged Slavery – Inc...
Waged Slavery – Incentivizing Unfree Labour at Cape Coast Castle in the Eighteenth Century
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History
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- 2016
- 2016
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Slavery & Abolition. - 0144-039X. ; 37:1, s. 73-93
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Abstract
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- This article studies the payment of wages to castle slaves at Cape Coast Castle (in current-day Ghana) in the eighteenth century. A quantitative estimate shows that the wages paid to these slaves were considerably higher than subsistence costs. A large sample of wage payments is also used in order to analyse statistically the existing wage differentials among the slaves. The results indicate that a complex wage structure had been developed in order to incentivize the slaves to work and to foster loyalty towards the slaveholder.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Slavery
- subsistence costs
- wages
- incentives
- principal-agent
- Cape Coast Castle
- Gold Coast
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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