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Panyarring could include the person who was provided credit, a member of that person's family, or even a member of the community or a trade associate of that person (as a result of the belief in collective responsibility for debts). In addition to forcing debt repayment, panyarring could also be used to force a person to a
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of Liverpool or Bristol play tricks...the Friends and Relations never Fail, with the First opportunity to revenge it. They... panyarr the Boats' Crew who trust themselves foolishly on Shore; and now and then, by dissembling a friendship, have come on Board, Surprised and Murdered a Whole Ship's Company
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The active panyarring along the Gold Coast in the 17th and 18th centuries eventually resulted in a situation where communities were extremely vulnerable to its members being seized and sold in the slave trade or held for payment. Travel between communities became very dangerous and even working alone
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Europeans would use panyarring in order to secure food or goods when it seemed opportune. One British commander noted that whenever the English wanted any goat, sheep, or chicken, they would simply go into the town and take the animal. The owner would then come to the British fort and be paid for the
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Here it is used also for stealing anything else; and, by Custom, (their Law,) every man has a Right to seize of another, at any Conveniency, so much as he can prove himself afterwards at that Palaver court to have been defrauded of, by any body in the same place he was Cheated... If any of our Ships
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Panyarring thus was a prime cause of deteriorating relations between different Yoruba chiefs, causing significant periods of tensions between different groups and directly causing the Ondo-Ikale war of 1891. With British expansion in the 1880s and 1890s, panyarring decreased in importance throughout
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polities without an organized central power. With the increase of slave trading, panyarring became a means of seizing persons, sometimes regardless of whether there was a pre-existing loan agreement and holding them hostage, selling them into slavery, or simply seizing their goods. It also regulated
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In contrast to pawnship, panyarring involved the arbitrary seizure of persons in order to force repayment for a debt or to recoup the loss by selling the person into slavery. Panyarring was one of many forms of debt repayment in the region, but was one of the most extreme forms of forcing repayment.
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came to be a prominent economic force along the Atlantic coast, panyarring became a means for securing additional persons to trade, disrupting the trade of rivals, in some instances of protecting members of a person's family from being taken in the slave trade, and a political and economic tool used
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in the 1720s and established control over part of the Atlantic coast and became one of the main participants in the slave trade. Allada and Whydah had been prominent users of panyarring for much of their contact with Europeans. The king of Allada, toward the end of the 17th century, was recorded as
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The British and the Dutch incorporated panyarring into their competitive strategies with one another. African traders and merchants associated with the other power would be panyarred in order to disrupt the trade or attempt to change the allegiance of the trader. For example, in 1688 in the port of
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Both Europeans and Africans began using panyarring as an extension of political and economic policies in the region and for a range of purported offenses. For example, in 1709 British slave traders were upset with an African slave trader who allegedly sold them a "mad" slave. When the dispute
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along the coast of Africa. Other than the Gold Coast or Yorubaland, panyarring never reached significant levels. Lovejoy and Richardson claim that the prevalence of panyarring is largely related to the structure and ability for debt repayment through authorized channels. When credit and debt
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in 1838. The British took a strong stance against panyarring when they established their administration on the coast and banned the practice in 1903. The prominence of the activity decreased and it has not been widely used in West Africa since that time. Pawnship was a form of slavery.
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in that the arrangement could include limited, specific terms of services to be provided and because kinship ties would protect the person from being sold into slavery. Pawnship was a common practice prior to European contact throughout West Africa, including amongst the
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where members of a family borrowing money would be pledged as collateral to the family providing credit until the repayment of the debt. Panyarring though is different from this practice as it involves the forced seizure of persons when a debt was not repaid.
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chief's sons who had been pawns in an arrangement were sold to a European slave ship. The chief, Robin John Ephraim, was left with little choice but to panyar the ships and release his sons and other members of his tribe seized for the slave trade.
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threatening local traders who were in default on loans that "all their wives would be taken." Similarly, Whydah was known for being particularly hard on debtors because it allowed panyarring of persons or goods whenever loans were not paid.
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and chaos which followed. Panyarring then became an active means of securing repayment of debt and for political and economic ends again. In 1902, the British took over the Ashanti area and created the area of modern-day Ghana into a formal
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However, panyarring did still affect trade relationships throughout the coast at a number of points. The most prominent was the Bimbia affair. In 1788, a British trader bought 30 persons held in pawnship in
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banned the practice of panyarring around 1838. This prohibition required use of the military and administrative function of the Ashanti, and was continued until 1883 until the overthrow of
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away from communities could make one vulnerable to seizure. Initially, communities adopted practices to try to protect themselves from panyarring practices with the creation of
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was the practice of seizing and holding persons until the repayment of debt or resolution of a dispute which became a common activity along the Atlantic coast of
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of pawnship. Gradually, the word became commonly used by Europeans to describe the practice of seizing a person for repayment of debt or to remedy an
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increased, the African slave traders panyarred the British captain and held him until both sides negotiated an outcome. Similarly, in 1797
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when members of the village had refused to repay debts to British officers because those officers had died. Dalzel held the priest at the
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in West Africa, which involved the pledge of a person (or a member of the person's family) to service to a person providing
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in exchange for a small fee from another Mahi man who accused the first of adultery with one of his wives. Similarly, an
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relationships between the different communities by bringing persons to palaver courts for settlement in front of a judge.
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Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson (2001). "The Business of Slaving: Pawnship in Western Africa, c. 1600–1810".
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The neighboring British and Dutch forts at Komenda, the sites of numerous hostilities and significant panyarring.
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rose to prominence and began consolidating authority it tried to end the practice of panyarring. King
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Ojo, Olatunji (2007). ""Èmú" (Àmúyá): The Yoruba Institution of Panyarring or Seizure for Debt".
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Henige, David (1977). "John Kabes of Komenda: An Early African Entrepreneur and State Builder".
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Panyarring has been described in some form during the 18th and 19th centuries from present-day
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in the 18th and 19th centuries. The practice developed from pawnship, a common practice in
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Panyarring became a large-scale activity in West Africa largely with the increase in the
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Cape Coast Slave Castle, the main British fort in the Gold Coast for the slave trade.
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Labour, Land, and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807–1956
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Dahomey had banned the practice of panyarring in the early 17th century under King
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The Door of No Return in Whydah. Memorial to the slave trade through the port of
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Fisher, Ruth A. (1928). "Extracts from the Records of the African Companies ".
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The main historical cities of the Yoruba coast with modern national boundaries.
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relationships lack structure, pawnship and panyarring became prominent.
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The practice was banned by a number of African kingdoms, notably by the
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Law, Robin (2007). "The Komenda Wars, 1694–1700: a Revised Narrative".
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Ouidah: The Social History of a West African 'Slaving' Port, 1727–1892
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for a week until the chief of Anomabo agreed to repay the debts.
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Panyarring is a Term used for Man-Stealing along the whole Coast.
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Panyarring became a means of securing people for sale into the
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Holding of a person until resolution of a debt or dispute
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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
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Index

a series
Forced labour
slavery
Shackles
Contemporary
Child Labour
Child soldiers
Conscription
Debt
Forced marriage
Bride buying
Child marriage
Wife selling
Forced prostitution
Human trafficking
Peonage
Penal labour
Contemporary Africa
21st-century jihadism
Sexual slavery
Wage slavery
Historical
Antiquity
Egypt
Babylonia
Greece
Rome
Medieval Europe
Ancillae
Black Sea slave trade

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