The persistence of slavery : an economic history of child trafficking in Nigeria / Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapdelaine, Robin Phylisia, author.

Series:

Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth.

Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child trafficking--Economic aspects--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Child trafficking.

Child trafficking--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Enslaved children--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Enslaved children.

Child marriage--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Child marriage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 239 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have continued to the present day. To understand why, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine explores child trafficking, pawning, and marriages in Nigeria's Bight of Biafra, and the ways in which British colonial authorities and Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, and Ijaw populations mobilized children's labor during the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources that include oral interviews, British and Nigerian archival materials, newspaper holdings, and missionary and anthropological accounts, Chapdelaine argues that slavery's endurance can only be understood when we fully examine "the social economy of a child"-the broader commercial, domestic, and reproductive contexts in which children are economic vehicles. The Persistence of Slavery provides an invaluable investigation into the origins of modern slavery and early efforts to combat it, locating this practice in the political, social, and economic changes that occurred as a result of British colonialism and its lingering effects, which perpetuate child trafficking in Nigeria today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Politics, Social Relations and Trade in the Bight of Biafra

Colonial Policies and Coercive Labor: Trade, Slaves and Debts

International Consensus on the Welfare of Children, 1920s

The Ogu Umunwaanyi (1929 Women's War)

Child Trafficking in the Aftermath of the 1929 Women's War

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781613767733 (electronic book)

9781613767733

1613767730

OCLC:

1236131684