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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and 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 This collection of previously unpublished essays exposes the global victimization of child slaves from the period of abolition of legal slavery in the nineteenth century to the human rights era of the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. It contributes to the growing recognitionthat the stereotypical bonded male slave was in fact a rarity. Nine of the studies are historical, with five located in Africa and three cov

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821443743

0821443747

OCLC:

769188972