“Cruelty's Sisters”: Buying Seamen's Wages in Late Stuart England
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.183
Abstract: Abstract To delay paying wages to seamen, the late Stuart Navy issued them instead with “tickets” to be redeemed for cash after months or years of delay. Seamen often sold the tickets at deep discounts… read more here.
Keywords: buying seamen; sisters buying; ticket buying; cruelty sisters ... See more keywords