Child slaves in the modern world / edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Gwyn, 1952-

Miers, Suzanne.

Miller, Joseph Calder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved children--History.

Enslaved children.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 281 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes to examine the experiences of children In slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of previously unpublished essays, exposes the global victimization of child slaves from the period of abolition of legal, slavery in the nineteenth century to the human rights era of the twentieth century.

Nine of the studies are historical, with five located in Africa and three covering Latin America from the British Caribbean ,to Chile. One study follows the children.liberated in the famous Amis-tad incident (1843), while other essays cover contemporary forms of child slavery, from prostitution to labor to forced soldiering.

Child Slaves in the Modem World adds historical depth to the current literature on contemporary slavery, emphasising the distinctive vulnerabilities of children that made them particularly valuable.to those who could acquire and control them.

Contributors:

Jonathan Blagbrough

William G. Clarence Smith

Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki Mike Dottridge

Trevor R: Getz

Malika Id' Salah

Cecily Jones

Martin Klein

Benjamin N. Lawrance Sarah Maguire

Nara Milanich

Bernard Mqitt?

Sue. Taylor

Philip Whalen Book jacket.

Contents:

Child slaves in the era of abolition

Benjamin N. Lawrance, "All we want is make us free" : the voyage of la amistad's children through the worlds of the illegal slave trade

Gwyn Campbell, Children and bondage in imperial Madagascar, ca. 1790/1895

Cecily Jones, Youthful rebels : young people, agency, and resistance against colonial slavery in the British Caribbean plantation world

Sue Taylor, Family strategies : slave parents and children in the Caracas courts, 1750/1854

Nara Milanich, Degrees of bondage: children's tutelary servitude in modern Latin America

Martin Klein, Children and slavery in the western Sudan

Bernard Moitt, Slavery and guardianship in postemancipation Senegal : colonial legislation and minors in Tutelle, 1848/1905

Trevor R. Getz, British magistrates and unfree children in early colonial gold coast, 1874/1899

William G. Clarence-Smith, The redemption of child slaves by christian missionaries in central Africa, 1878/1914

Child slaves in the modern era

Jonathan Blagbrough, "This is nothing but slavery": child domestic labor in the modern context

Philip Whalen and Malika Id' Salah, Girls as domestic slaves in contemporary France

Zosa de Sas Kropiwnicki, Strategic agents : adolescent prostitutes in Cape Town, South Africa

Sarah Maguire, Children, slavery, and soldiering

Mike Dottridge, Contemporary child slavery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821419588

0821419587

9780821419595

0821419595

OCLC:

682895097