... consumers usetheir credit cards, they would be told whether the purchase will trigger a penalty forexceeding the credit limit and how much interest they will pay if the purchase addsto their credit ... majority of creditors con-sented. Asset exemptions appeared as early as the 1790s, when Virginia and othersouthern states adopted them to protect local landowners from their northerncreditors. ... bankrupts and their children into slavery, forcing bankrupts to become indentured servants oftheir creditors, putting them in prison, flogging, branding, cutting off their hands,exiling them, and publicly...