Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England by Amanda Bailey

Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England

Amanda Bailey

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The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and...

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