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American Debtors' Prison: The Rise of the New York Citizen as a Commercial Participant during the Early American Republic, 1800-1836

Braeger, Ryan M.

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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century

Wakelam, AlexanderUniversity of Cambridge2019

… focusses on the often underappreciated role that debtors’ prisons played in the eighteenth-century economy. Bankruptcy, traditionally the mechanism used to examine failure and insolvency, was artificially restricted during the period to those owing over £100 and who were defined as a ‘trader’ by a …

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