In:
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 36, No. 4 ( 1994-10), p. 702-719
Abstract:
The bells tolled early on the morning of the 28th of January 1867, summoning the peasants from Agró and the surrounding areas on the island of Kerkyra. The bailiffs employed by the local landlords and the constables ordered to protect them were to arrive that day to collect the current year's rent. Most peasants in the area around Agró were sharecroppers cultivating the land of absentee landlords and bound to these plantation owners both by contracts and forms of quasi-feudal obligations. The annual collection of the rents was always a tense affair because under Ionian law and custom, if a sharecropper failed to pay his rent, he was subject to summary seizure and detention in prison until someone settled the debt. And from this law, there was no right of appeal.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0010-4175
,
1475-2999
DOI:
10.1017/S001041750001940X
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1994
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2010834-5
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202331-3
SSG:
0
SSG:
10
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