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SUMMARY:Credit\, Debt\, and Personal Failure in the English and New York C
 ourts of Chancery\, 1674-1800 - Aidan Collins (University of Newcastle)
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines cases involving bankruptcy and debt recove
 ry brought before the court of Chancery — a court of equity which dealt 
 with civil disputes — in London and New York. In doing so\, the paper ex
 plores the numerous meanings attached to personal failure in the seventeen
 th and eighteenth centuries\, demonstrating the negative aspects of early 
 modern trade networks and the active role of the court when such networks 
 broke down.\n\nThis is a hybrid seminar:\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://cam-a
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LOCATION:History Faculty Room 11
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