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Guide to the seven files in the economy section, covering Yoruba market systems, trade routes, cowrie currency, esusu credit, craft guilds, cocoa agriculture, and internal labor systems including iwofa pawnship and slavery.

An examination of Yoruba domestic servitude, the iwofa debt-pawnship system, internal legal categories, and the complex impacts of nineteenth-century wars and colonial abolition.